It is many years since I last visited Pearl Harbour and no doubt there will be changes in the decades since. I personally found the whole Harbour to be very moving, particularly having grown up during WW2 and knowing what we were allowed to know during that time. As senior school boys in Sydney we saw only the midget submarines and the aircraft in the searchlights. Our discomfort was limited to all sorts of rationing, blacked out houses and hooded headlights and later, on quizzing our senior science master on how one would split the atom.

This gallery is a collection of pictures taken on more than one occasion and is offered as a very incomplete record. It does show the profoundly sobering memorial to the USS Arizona and as well illustrates some of the other naval exhibits offered at that time ie: late 1960s to 1970s and beyond. I recall that cameras were quarantined during my first ferry trip but they must have been subsequently allowed. Our friend Grant has promised a few contemporary pics, having visited in 2009. As with our Aerronauticus gallery we welcome any assistance in naming the functions, particularly those in the submarine.

11 April 2011