It wasn't an aircraft carrier, but a battleship. The battleship used was the USS Missouri.
USN battleship USS New York (BB34), sunk in the Pacific as a target in 1948.
The USS Arizona was never decommissioned after being sunk. The US Navy only lists her as being stricken from the record on 1 Dec 1942.
Nimitz is a carrier; see website: USS Nimitz
USS Missouri.
The Battleship USS Arizona
For photos, see website: USS Arizona
US battlewagons: USS Arizona, USS Oklahoma, USS Utah.
USS Arizona?
It was a Pennsylvania Class Battleship.
USS Arizona (BB-39) was a Pennsylvania-class battleship of the United States Navy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_%28BB-39%29
On 7 December 1941.
3 US battleships were never used again: US battleships USS Arizona and USS Utah still rest on the bottom of PH. Battleship USS Oklahoma was raised, sold for scrap (re-cycling) but sunk at sea while it was being towed back to California.
Yes, for about 1,000 US battleship crewmen.
ITS NOT! The USS Arizona sunk on December 7 1941. The way you think its floating is its a totally different battleship. the ship that is floating is the USS Missouri.
The Battleship USS Arizona
USS Arizona