The next day we took a tour of Pearl Harbor and the surrounding area. We left our hotel around 6am and returned about 6pm. It was a long day and we saw a lot of stuff. Pearl Harbor and the museums could easily take two days to see everything. We got a brief tour of everything.
First, we saw the USS Bowfin submarine.
Then the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center with the battleship USS Arizona Memorial. We took a small ferry boat to the memorial that sits over the sunken ship.
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The Pacific Aviation Museum was the next stop on the tour. Matt enjoyed the planes.
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| Matt and a Flying Tiger |
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| Shattered glass at the airplane hanger from bullets fired from Japanese war planes on their way to Pearl Harbor. |
After the plane museum, we went to the USS Missouri battleship. Click Here for more pictures.
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| The location of the Japanese surrender on the deck of the Missouri |
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| Arizona from the Missouri |
After Pearl Harbor, we saw the Royal Hawaiian Palace. It's the only royal palace on US soil and was fashioned after Buckingham Palace. The King of Hawaii had a fascination with British Royalty.
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After the tour we walked along the sandy beach back to the hotel with the sun setting behind us.
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