How did the USS Arizona sink?

Answer 1

The USS Arizona was one of our battleships that was sunk at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii December 7, 1941 at the start of the war with Japan. A surprize early morning sneak attack by Japan caught everyone off guard.

Answer 2

The short answer is she was sunk in Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, she now lies in the Brooklyn,navy yard

More specifically, the killing blow was a Japanese armor-piercing shell modified to act as a bomb, dropped from (most likely) a Kate acting as a bomber. This shell landed near one of the forward turrets, penetrated the decks and exploded in/near the forward magazines.

The bomb did NOT fall down the stack.

It sank at its berth when it was hit by at least one bomb from a Japanese plane on December 7, 1941. The fatal blow came when a bomb exploded in or near a munitions magazine. The sinking took 1177 lives of the 1400 crewmen on board.

Answer 3

The USS Arizona sank as a result of the Japanese airplane attack on Pearl Harbor, HI on December 7, 1941. Numerous bombs were dropped on the Arizona, causing numerous explosions and hull breaches, causing the battleship to sink.

Answer 4

The Arizona blew up and sank about ten or fifteen minutes into the attack. The attack continued for another hour and a half, and the Arizona continued to burn. 1177 men, over half the crew, died, and this was about half the Americans killed in the attack.

For a few months after the attack the Navy used divers to attempt to recover bodies from the wreck. It was an extremely dangerous environment for divers though, completely dark, and full of jagged metal which could slice the divers suit, cut his airhose, and cause him to become entangled and trapped. It was also very demoralizing to the divers to find the bodies, in an ever increasing state of decomposition, and try to get them out of the wreck. So, eventually the Navy abandoned the effort to recover the remains, and most of the men lost are still entombed in the wreckage.

All but two of the ships sunk that morning were eventually raised and repaired and took part in the war. The Arizona was too badly damaged to try to refloat. Basically the entire forward half of the ship was destroyed when the ship's forward magazine was detonated by a bomb, exploding one million pounds of propellant for the battleship's main guns.

The ships four gun turrets were removed, and one of them was emplaced on a point of land on Oahu as a coastal defense battery.

Cutting torches were used to cut away the entire superstructure of the ship - all that structure amidships above the weather deck. Some of this wreckage remains in an out of the way junk pile on Ford Island, where the public is not allowed. So, all that remains under the water in Pearl Harbor is the hull of the ship, from the weather deck down.

About 1960 the Arizona Memorial was opened to the public. Its a structure built across the aft end of the sunken ship, and from it visitors can look down into the water and see the hull below. They can see part way down the barbettes, atop which the gun turrets sat. The USS Missouri, an Iowa Class battleship, aboard which the Japanese signed the surrender documents in Tokyo Bay in 1945, is berthed nearby and is open to the public as well.

Almost seventy years after the attack, the Arizona is still leaking fuel oil, releasing a couple of quarts every day, as though still bleeding. Rust is taking its toll, and sometime in the next few decades the wreckage will collapse in on itself.

Answer 5

A Battleship used and sank in WWII.

Answer 6

It was sunk by the Japanese during the Pearl Harbor attack December 7th 1941

Answer 7

Got shot dummy.