USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor , United States of America
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D6MK6H | |
| Project Name | USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor |
| Country | United States of America |
| Status | Upcoming |
| Citation |
| US National Park Service Submerged Resource Center 2026: USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor - LiDAR - Terrestrial, Photogrammetry - Aerial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6MK6H |
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| Spatial Data | Coming Soon |
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| LiDAR - Terrestrial | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Photogrammetry - Aerial | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | The USS Arizona Memorial is a white reinforced concrete structure spanning the sunken hull of the battleship USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Designed by Austrian-born Honolulu architect Alfred Preis and dedicated on May 30, 1962, it commemorates the 1,177 crewmen killed when the ship was destroyed during the Japanese attack of December 7, 1941. The memorial straddles the wreck perpendicular to its midsection without touching it, resting on pilings driven into the harbor floor on either side of the hull.
The structure measures 184 feet in length. Its profile rises at both ends and sags at the center, a form Preis described as expressing initial defeat and ultimate victory. It stands 21 feet high and 36 feet wide at the ends, narrowing to 14 feet high and 27 feet wide at the midpoint. The interior is organized into three spaces: an entry room, a central open-air assembly room, and a shrine room whose marble wall is inscribed with the names of the dead. Twenty-one openings, seven on each side wall and seven in the roof, admit light and air and frame views of the harbor and the submerged ship. An opening in the floor allows visitors to look down onto the wreck.
The memorial, accessible only by boat, has been administered by the National Park Service since 1980 and forms the centerpiece of Pearl Harbor National Memorial. The wreck itself, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989, remains the final resting place for more than 900 of the crew.
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship commissioned by the U.S. Navy in 1916 and later assigned to the Pacific Fleet. On December 7, 1941, Arizona was moored at Pearl Harbor when Japanese forces attacked. A bomb detonated the ship’s forward ammunition magazines, causing a catastrophic explosion that sank the battleship and killed 1,177 crew members.
Today, the USS Arizona remains on the bottom of Pearl Harbor and serves as both a historic artifact and a war grave. The site is one of the most significant physical places associated with the December 7 attack and the entry of the United States into World War II.
The National Park Service stewards the USS Arizona Memorial and associated resources, working to preserve, document, protect, and interpret the site and the stories of those who served and died aboard Arizona. The site provides an important connection between the physical remains of the battleship, the people associated with it, and the larger history of Pearl Harbor and World War II. | |
| Project Description | 39 Terrestrial LiDAR Scans and 359 drone images taken by Scott Pawlowski in 2023. | |
| Collection Date | 2023-02-28 to 2023-02-28 |
| Publication Date | 2026-10-04 |
| License Type | CC BY |
| Model Information |
| Reuse Score | B - High-Quality Model without Georeferencing |
| Entities |
| Contributors | US National Park Service Submerged Resource Center |
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