Why America Raised Every Battleship at Pearl Harbor Except One

On December 7, 1941, five American battleships were on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Three years later most of them were back in the fight, and two of them helped win the last battleship duel in history. Only one was never raised. This video shows how the US Navy brought its sunken battleships back: patch the holes, pump the water out, lift 30,000 tons of steel off the harbor floor. And why the same three steps could not work on USS Arizona. Inside: - why the fleet was sunk in the one place it could be un-sunk - how divers worked in total darkness inside flooded hulls - the three men trapped in West Virginia and the calendar they kept - 21 winches and 42 miles of wire to roll Oklahoma upright - why Arizona was declared a total loss - Surigao Strait, 1944: the ships from the harbor floor fire back Sources: Homer N. Wallin, "Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal"; Naval History and Heritage Command; National Park Service, Pearl Harbor National Memorial. Maps and cutaways in this video are simplified and not to scale. #pearlharbor #battleship #usnavy #ww2 #navalhistory