
Aside from the Arizona and Missouri, there are plenty of other activities to build up your appetite at the National Park. Since you can’t bring bags at all, you are limited to the concession stands. Thankfully they were pretty good and not overly expensive. Big hot dogs with unlimited cheese, chili and condiments were a pretty good deal. Schäfer loved his!



But hot dogs don’t hold a candle to operating anti-aircraft guns. He is all boy!

Nearby they had some periscopes set up, one at Schäfer’s level.

View from the periscope with the USS Bowfin, USS Arizona memorial and USS Missouri.

Schäfer and I went on the USS Bowfin, a submarine used during WWII

The doors inside were quite small.

Schäfer loved working the rudder planes. “Down 10 degrees!”

Everything was brass plated (less conductive) and gleaming.

The bunks were shared by shifts of crewmembers.

Schäfer smiling in the engine room. The submarine was powered by electric motors and when on the surface, these diesel motors charged the batteries.

In the submarine museum our little swimmer wanted a picture by the diving suit.

Following the submarine museum we went to the Pacific Aviation Museum back by the Missouri. It was very well done and explained some of the other stories from Pearl Harbor and WWII.

Including the story of the fleet of bombers that took off from US aircraft carriers to strike at the heart of Tokyo, sending a message that the US will not back down and that Japan was not as invincible as it believed.

The entire hanger was packed with aircraft.

Sianna enjoys some flying near a B-23.

At the end of the day, we were thankful to visit the National Park and bring our kids to a site that represents who we are as Americans. A nation that will not stand for tyranny. A people who cherish freedom.




















































