Members of the University of Arizona Navy ROTC will gather in the outline of the USS Arizona near Old Main on Saturday morning to mark the 83rd anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.
This year’s ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. at the USS Arizona Mall Memorial, just south of the U of A Student Union.
It will include a uniformed honor guard and remarks by Cmdr. Angela Gonzales, a naval science instructor and the Navy ROTC’s executive officer, and Andrew Desautels, secretary emeritus of the USS Arizona Reunion Association.
Rarely seen photos of the USS Arizona, sunk Dec. 7, 1941, in Pearl Harbor
USS ARIZONA taken from Manhattan Bridge on the East River in New York City on its way back from sea trials. Note Christmas trees on both lookouts atop cage masts. December 25,1916.
View of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and Commandant Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, USN, at the keel-laying of USS ARIZONA (BB-39) in 1914.
View of Waterfront Looking North from Top of Building Number 6, U.S.S. Arizona at Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1911
USS Arizona, Arrival of Sponsor, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, in 1915
The propeller shaft and aft cradle of the USS Arizona the day before its launch in 1915.
Launch of USS Arizona at the New York shipyards in June, 1915.
This is a hand out photo of the Arizona delegation at the christening of the ship on June 19, 1915 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. The photo includes Eva Behn, Mrs. W.W. Ross, Sec of Navy Josephus Daniels, Gov. George W.P. Hunt and Esther Ross who christened the ship. Note the rope still attached to the champagne bottle used in the christening. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
This is the remains of the champagne bottle and the rope that was attached to it that was used to christen the ship on June 19, 1915 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson., on Nov. 23, 2016.
This is a detail of the champagne bottle used to christen the ship on June 19, 1915 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson., on Nov. 23, 2016.
This is the remains of the water bottle used to christen the ship on June from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson., on Nov. 23, 2016.
This is a commemorative medal worn by the ship's sponsor, Esther Ross, during the christening of the ship on June 19, 1915 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson., on Nov. 23, 2016. Note, the metal is from a casting from a cannon on the USS Maine which was sunk under mysterious circumstances in Havana, Cuba in 1898.
This is the reverse side of a commemorative medal worn by the ship's sponsor, Esther Ross, during the christening of the ship on June 19, 1915 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson., on Nov. 23, 2016. Note, the metal is from a casting from a cannon on the USS Maine which was sunk under mysterious circumstances in Havana, Cuba in 1898.
The leader Arizona passing 96th St. Pier in great naval review at N.Y. City. Ca. 1918. Paul Thompson. (War Dept.) Exact Date Shot Unknown NARA FILE #: 165-WW-334A-4A WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 477
USS Arizona steaming with other Atlantic fleet battleships during gunnery practice, 1917.
A Sack race Recreation on board a battleship, circa 1916-1917. This ship is either USS Pennsylvania (Battleship # 38) or USS Arizona (Battleship # 39). The original image, copyrighted by N. Moser, New York, is printed on post card (AZO) stock.
The USS Arizona at sea on Dec 16, 1918 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
View of number 3 turret, with a Nieuport 28 airplane on the flying-off platform, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa spring 1921. Note: airing hammocks and mainmast details.
Firing 14" guns broadside during battle practice, 1920s.
U.S.S. Arizona in lock, Panama Canal, 1921
Pushing a peanut by blowing on it, during a shipboard competition on board USS Arizona (BB-39), circa 1923-1925.
Ship's complement posing on her forecastle, forward turrets and superstructure, circa 1924. The officer seated in the second row, 4th from right, is Ensign Arleigh A. Burke. Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN, 1977. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
A 1922 Christmas program from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. "At 'Em, " as in term Up and A'tem, was the ship's slogan.
U.S.S. Arizona in 1924
USS Arizona (BB39). Starboard bow, underway with aircraft overhead in 1927.
The ship's engineering crew posed by one of the gun turrets circa 1928 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. Note, a couple of African-Americans on the crew. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
USS Arizona's crew cleaning forward section near gun turrets #1 and #2, late 1920s.
An amphibious airplane rests on the catapult of the ship circa 1927 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
Aircraft are perched on the fantail of the ship while at anchor which may have have been taken in 1927-28 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson.. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
Around 1929, an airplane is catapulted from the deck of the ship from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
Crew members of the ship sweep the deck circa 1927-1928 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
Arizona (BB39) port bow, before being modernized at Norfolk Naval Shipyard between May 1929 and January 1930. Photo taken between 1917 and 1929
Starboard rear quarter view of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia (USA), in March 1931 following her modernization. To the right are the destroyers USS Blakeley (DD-150) and USS Biddle (DD-151).
After being modernized the ship takes President Herbert Hoover, left, on a vacation cruise to the Caribbean as he walks with Secretary of War Patrick Hurley in March 1931 from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
Dines at sea on board USS ARIZONA (BB-39). Captain Charles S. Freeman, Commanding Officer of BB-39, is fourth from the left. President and his party were embarked in ARIZONA for a 10 day tour of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, beginning 19 March 1931.
Description: Underway with President Herbert Hoover on board, March 1931. The Presidential Flag is flying from her mainmast peak.
In drydock at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Oahu, T.H., 3 March 1932.
USS Arizona, Upon Completion of Modernization, Norfolk Navy Yard Ports, Virginia, Serial No. 140-31
Pitching in heavy seas during the 1930s. after modernization. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
In early March 1933, the ship was sent to Long Beach, Calif., after an earthquake struck the area and the ship provided a shore party that helped patrol the area, communcations, set up first aid stations and food and shelter for the victims of the tremor from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson., on Nov. 23, 2016. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
USS Arizona central galley interior, 1930s.
The naval tradition of the "crossing the line" ceremony is a long-standing ritual involving initiation rites of passage for new recruits crossing the equator for the first time as this 1936 photo of a sailor dressed as Davey Jones from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
These are a couple of pages from William Charles Austin's scrapbook from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. The book contains 96 pages of documents, black and white photographs of sailors, relatives and friends, US Naval battleships, the Arizona's athletic teams and interior views of the ship and aircraft from 1930-31. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
The ship's baseball team took batting practice wherever they could including at sea in this circa 1931-1938 Navy propoganda photo from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
The ship's whale boat team in 1941 was the Pacific Fleet runner up from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson. Only two member of this team survived the attack at Pearl Harbor. Courtesy of UA Special Collections
Members of the USS Arizona band, known as Navy Band Unit 22, perform on Nov. 22, 1941, in the semifinal round of the Battle of Music at Bloch Arena at Pearl Harbor. They finished second and advanced to a final competition that would never be held. Everyone in the band died onboard the Arizona during the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941. U.S. Navy photo by Tai Sing Loo
Aerial photograph from 2500 feet altitude, looking southward, showing the U.S. Fleet moored in the harbor on 3 May 1940. This was soon after the conclusion of Fleet Problem XXI and four days before word was received that the Fleet was to be retained in Hawaiian waters. There are eight battleships and the carrier Yorktown (CV-5) tied up by Ford Island, in the center of the harbor. Two more battleships and many cruisers, destroyers and other Navy ships also present, most of them moored in groups in East Loch, in the foreground. A few of the destroyers are wearing experimental dark camouflage paint. In the distance, center, is Hickam Army Air Field. The Pearl Harbor entrance channel is in the right distance.
Vertical aerial photograph from 17,200 feet altitude, looking directly down on East Loch and on the Fleet Air Base on Ford Island. Taken on 3 May 1940, after the conclusion of Fleet Problem XXI, and just prior to the 7 May receipt of word that the Fleet was to be retained in Hawaiian waters. There are eight battleships and the carrier Yorktown (CV-5) tied up along the island's southeastern side (toward the top), with two more battleships alongside 1010 dock at top right center. Two light cruisers and two destroyers are among the ships moored along Ford Island's northwestern side. Seventeen other cruisers and over thirty destroyers are also visible, mainly in East Loch. At the seaplane base, at the southern (top right) tip of Ford Island, are at least 38 PBY patrol planes.
Vertical aerial view of Battleship Row, beside Ford Island, during the early part of the horizontal bombing attack on the ships moored there. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft. Ships seen are (from left to right): USS Nevada; USS Arizona with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS Tennessee with USS West Virginia moored outboard; USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma moored outboard; and USS Neosho, only partially visible at the extreme right. A bomb has just hit Arizona near the stern, but she has not yet received the bomb that detonated her forward magazines. West Virginia and Oklahoma are gushing oil from their many torpedo hits and are listing to port. Oklahoma's port deck edge is already under water. Nevada has also been torpedoed. Japanese inscription in lower left states that the photograph has been officially released by the Navy Ministry. Donation of Theodore Hutton, 21 September 1942. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
USS Arizona (BB-39) ablaze, just after her forward magazines exploded. At right, shrouded in smoke from the fire, are the main and foremasts of USS West Virginia, which is listing sharply to port after she was torpedoed. Upright mast further to the right is the mainmast of USS Tennessee (BB-43), moored inboard of West Virginia. The bow and foremast of USS Vestal (AR-4), moored outboard of Arizona, are visible at the left. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Vertical aerial view of Battleship Row, beside Ford Island, soon after USS Arizona was hit by bombs and her forward magazines exploded. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft. Ships seen are (from left to right): USS Nevada; USS Arizona (burning intensely) with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS Tennessee with USS West Virginia moored outboard; and USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma capsized alongside. Smoke from bomb hits on Vestal and West Virginia is also visible. Japanese inscription in lower left states that the photograph has been reproduced under Navy Ministry authorization. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Aftermath of the Japanese sneak attack on these three stricken U.S. battleships; from left to right: West Virginia (BB-48) (severely damaged),Tennessee (BB-43) (damaged), and the Arizona (BB-39) (sunk). (click on image to zoom in)
The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. USS Arizona sunk at en:Pearl Harbor. The ship is resting on the harbor bottom. The supporting structure of the forward tripod mast has collapsed after the forward magazine exploded.
The forward magazines of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) explode shortly after 08:00 hrs during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), 7 December 1941.
Front page of the Arizona Daily Star on the morning after the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
Burned out and sunk in Pearl Harbor on 10 December 1941, three days after she was destroyed during the 7 December Japanese raid. Ships in the background are USS Saint Louis (CL-49), in center, and the hulked minelayer Baltimore (CM-1) at left. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Battleships moored off Ford Island in Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack on Dec. 7 1941.
Burned-out wreck of USS Arizona, at Pearl Harbor, December 1941
USS Arizona 4358-42; Man coming out of turret #3 in 1943. Department of the Navy. Fourteenth Naval District. Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Fleet Salvage Unit. ca. 1941-1947
The USS Arizona's sister ship, the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) leading USS Colorado (BB-45) and the cruisers USS Louisville (CA-28), USS Portland (CA-33), and USS Columbia (CL-56) into Lingayen Gulf, Philippines, in January 1945.
USS Arizona, Submerged off Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI
Aerial of Pearl Harbor and Ford Island with salvage operations of USS Arizona underway on Oct. 27, 1942.
Aerial of Pearl Harbor and Ford Island with salvage operations of USS Arizona underway on Oct. 27, 1942. View is just aft of the gun turret #4.
USS Arizona, Submerged off Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Honolulu County, HI
Passes the wreck of USS Arizona (BB-39) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Memorial Day, 31 May 1958. Bennington's crew is in formation on the flight deck, spelling out a tribute to the Arizona's crewmen who were lost in the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Note the outline of Arizona's hull and the flow of oil from her fuel tanks. Official U.S. Navy Photograph.
A starboard quarter view of the battleship USS NEW JERSEY (BB 62) passing the USS ARIZONA Memorial in 1986.
Tugs move USS MISSOURI (BB 63) to her berth at Ford Island (background). This berth is roughly where the battleships MARYLAND (BB 46) and OKLAHOMA (BB 37) were moored on 7 December 1941. The 184 foot-long USS ARIZONA Memorial in the foreground spans the mid-portion of the sunken battleship USS ARIZONA (BB 39).
An aerial view of the USS Arizona Memorial with a US Navy (USN) Tour Boat, USS Arizona Memorial Detachment, moored at the pier as visitor disembark to visit and pay their respects to the Sailors and Marines who lost their lives during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Elgin clock that is reported to have been recovered from the Admiral’s bridge aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) following its loss on December 7, 1941.
USS Arizona cruise album (P130) with open pages titled “Memory Leaves” signed by friends/shipmates, listing their hometowns.
The Smooth Log from the Life and Legacy of the USS Arizona exhibit at the University of Arizona Special Collections in Tucson., on Nov. 23, 2016. The log is a source reference for historical data of all weapon system aboard the ship. It is used for inspections, material readiness and operation documentation.
Construction Mechanic 3rd Class Ben McCallum (left) and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class James Aldridge, with Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 2 Construction Dive Detachment (CDD) Alpha, swim toward the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to conduct an indoctrination dive for future work May 20, 2016.
Steel Worker 1st Class Jesse Hamblin (left) and Builder 2nd Class Justin Lieder, with Underwater Construction Team (UCT) 2 Construction Dive Detachment (CDD) Alpha, examine a ladder well of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during an indoctrination dive for future work May 20, 2016.
USS Nimitz (CVN 68) passes by the Arizona Memorial as Sailors spell out "FREEDOM" and man the rails of the ship as the ship pulls into Pearl Harbor for a liberty visit in 2001. The stop is the first port call for Nimitz following a transit around South America while on the way to the her homeport of San Diego, Calif.
The USS Port Royal (CG 73) commanded by Capt. Pat Allen, prepares to pass in review and render honors to the USS Arizona Memorial with the sunken battleship's gun turret number three protruding from the water during the Dec. 7th commemoration ceremony hosted by Commander, Navy Region Hawaii.
Aviation Structural Mechanic 2nd Class Jennifer Usenick, assigned to the Golden Eagles of Patrol Squadron (VP) 9, reads the list of fallen military members following colors aboard the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 2014. The memorial marks the resting place of more than 1,000 Sailors and Marines who were killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB 39) during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Sailors salute as USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) passes the Arizona Memorial on Dec. 2, 2016, and arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to participate in National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day events. Dec. 7, 2016, marks the 75th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Oahu.
NATICK, Mass. — A World War II museum in Massachusetts is displaying artifacts commemorating the Pearl Harbor attack ahead of the Dec. 7 anniversary.
The International Museum of World War II says it recently acquired a life ring from the USS Arizona.
The battleship was among those destroyed in the surprise attack by Japan on the U.S naval base in Hawaii that prompted the U.S. to enter the war in 1941.
The ship's sunken remains are now a national memorial.
The museum, located in the Boston suburb of Natick, also displays many other artifacts related to the attack.
Among them is Japan's formal declaration of war against the U.S., pieces of Japanese planes shot down at Pearl Harbor and women's panties that read: "Remember Pearl Harbor, Don't Get Caught with Your Pants Down."
The ceremony will begin with an invocation and the national anthem and end with a taps bugle call and a bell ringing to honor the 1,177 sailors and Marines from the Arizona who died in the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941.
The commemoration will be followed by the fourth annual Remember the Arizona 5K Run and Walk, organized by the university’s ROTC and Veterans Education and Transition Services programs in partnership with Arizona Online and U of A Outreach, Distance and Continuing Education.
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50 historical photos of the attack on Pearl Harbor
Three U.S. battleships are hit from the air during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Japan's bombing of U.S. military bases at Pearl Harbor brings the U.S. into World War II. From left are: USS West Virginia, severely damaged; USS Tennessee, damaged; and USS Arizona, sunk. (AP Photo)
The battleship USS California is afire and listing to port in the Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941 during World War II. (AP Photo)
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, smoke rises from the battleship USS Arizona as it sinks during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP File Photo)
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, a Japanese plane goes into its last dive as it heads toward the ground in flames after it was hit by Naval anti-aircraft fire during a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)
In this aerial photo provided by the U.S. Navy, smoke from the burning battleship Arizona spreads a pall over Pearl Harbor naval base, Dec. 7, 1941, as a Japanese plane dodged through anti-aircraft fire to drive home the Japanese attack that launched a war on the U.S. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
FILE - In this Dec. 7, 1941 photo made available by the U.S. Navy, a small boat rescues a seaman from the USS West Virginia burning in the foreground in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after Japanese aircraft attacked the military installation. (U.S. Navy via AP, File)
FILE - American ships burn during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo. (AP Photo, File)
Half a house was left of this resident of the Asian section of Honolulu in Japan's surprise bombing which wreaked havoc in nearby Pearl Harbor. Native and Japanese cyclists watch fireman pour water on wreckage on Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
In this photo provided by the Department of Defense, U.S. aircraft destroyed as a result of the Japanese bombing on Pearl Harbor is shown, Dec. 7, 1941. Heap of demolished hanger in background Army amphibian in foreground. (AP Photo/DOD)
Flaming oil throws a billow of smoke skyward in the Japanese attack on Hickam Field, Pearl Harbor, U.S. Air base near Honolulu, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
A bombed U.S. Army truck with wheel still ablaze after the surprise attack, Dec. 7, 1941, which touched off a new war in the Pacific. (AP Photo)
U.S. Army barracks burning after the surprise attack at Hickam Field, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
A Japanese plane, braving American anti-aircraft fire, proceeds toward “battleship row,” Pearl Harbor, after other bombers had hit USS. Arizona, from which smoke billows, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
An unidentified officers' wife, investigating explosion and seeing smoke pall in distance at 8:15 am Dec. 7, 1941, heard neighbor Mary Naiden, then an army hostess, exclaim “There are red circles on those planes overhead. They are Japanese!" A boy and a woman carrying a dog flee toward quarters. (AP Photo/Mary Naiden)
The wreckage of the U.S.S. Oklahoma as it lies in the mud at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after the Japanese aerial attack on Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, general view of the burning and damaged ships of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, during the Japanese aerial attack on Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
The Lunalilo High School situated near the Waikiki district which was almost totally destroyed by fire from a bomb which hit the roof at the center part of the main building on Dec. 7, 1941. Four fire companies fought to save the school. Several homes all around the school caught fire - but were saved by the fire fighters. All families for blocks around brought their personal belongings outside of their homes, fearing another attack. (AP Photo)
The pilot of this Japanese plane met flaming death in the first surprise attack on the principal Hawaiian island of Oahu on Dec. 7, 1941, when his plane was shot down, rammed a residence and set the house and the one adjoining on fire. In the foreground is part of the plane wreckage. The pilot, later established as being at least six feet tall, was cremated. Japanese families resided in the two houses, which were destroyed. (AP Photo)
Battleship Arizona at pearl Harbor, December 1941. The photo was taken shortly after the battleship was bombed and destroyed during the surprise attack by Japanese forces, December 7, 1941. The vessel at right is a rescue tug. Flag still flying the ship is resting on the bottom of the ocean with decks flooded. (AP Photo)
This photo shows the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The USS Arizona is pictured in flames after the attack. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
Two ships are seen burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941 during World War II. (AP Photo)
Heavy black smoke billows as oil fuel burns from shattered tanks on ships that were hit during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941 during World War II. Visible through the murk is the U.S. battleship Maryland, center, and the hulk of the capsized USS Oklahoma to the right of it. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
Torpedoed and bombed by the Japanese, the battleship USS West Virginia begins to sink after suffering heavy damage, center, while the USS Maryland, left, is still afloat in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941 during World War II. The capsized USS Oklahoma is at right. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
The destroyer USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background, during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
Rescue workers help evacuate the Lunalilo High School in Honolulu after the roof of the main building was hit by a bomb during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
Smoke still fogged the air at Pearl harbor, Dec. 7, 1941 as these tractors tugged at what the Navy said was a Japanese two-man submarine, not shown, pulling it up on the beach for inspection after it was disabled in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)
A mass of twisted metal wreckage lay along a Honolulu street after the city had been attacked by Japanese planes Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
A small crowd inspects the damage, both inside and outside, after a Japanese bomb hit the residence of Paul Goo during the raid on Honolulu Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
U.S. Navy seamen examine the wreckage of a Japanese torpedo plane shot down at Pearl harbor during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
Wreckage, identified by the U.S. Navy as a Japanese torpedo plane , was salvaged from the bottom of Pearl Harbor following the surprise attack Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
The wing of a Japanese bomber shot down on the grounds of the Naval Hospital at Honolulu, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
An American Seaman looks at the charred corpse of a Japanese flier brought up from the bottom of Pearl Harbor where he crashed with his burning plane during the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941 in Hawaii. (AP Photo)
Japanese plane, proceeds toward "Battleship Row" at Pearl Harbor after other bombers had hit USS Arizona, from which smoke billows, Dec. 7, 1941. Photo was taken from the yard of Army's Hickam Field Quarters by Mrs. Mary Naiden of New York City. (AP Photo)
The shattered wreckage of American planes bombed by the Japanese in their attack on Pearl Harbor is strewn on Hickam Field, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over into the sea during Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. The ship sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-man crew, including Rear Admiral Issac C. Kidd. The attack, which left 2,343 Americans dead and 916 missing, broke the backbone of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and forced America out of a policy of isolationism. President Franklin D. Roosvelt announced that it was "a date which will live in infamy" and Congress declared war on Japan the morning after. This was the first attack on American territory since 1812. (AP Photo)
Planes are lined up at Hickham Field, Air Corps post on Oahu, Hawaii, in an undated image. Reports said that a Japanese bomb struck the field. Washington made the announcement Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
Believed to be the first bomb dropped on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the sneak-attack on Dec. 7, 1941, this picture was found torn to pieces at Yokusuka Base by photographer's mate 2/C Martin J. Shemanski of Plymouth, Pa. One Japanese plane is shown pulling out of a dive near bomb eruption (center) and another the air at upper right. (AP Photo)
Japanese family move their household goods out on their lawn, for fear of the fire spreading to their home from a fire caused by a falling bomb only a half block away during the air raid on Oahu, Hawaii on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
Black smoke pours from the U.S. Destroyer USS Shaw after a direct hit by bombs during the surprise aerial attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. Defenders on the pier at left throw water into the blazing wreckage. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
Smoke clouds the sky over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, as two sailors crouch with rifles on the pier at the submarine base trying to locate an enemy to fire on during World War II. Submarines berthed nearby are USS Tautog and USS Narwhal. (AP Photo)
Firemen and civilians rush to the scene with fire hoses to save homes and stores in the Japanese and Chinese sections of Honolulu, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. As Japanese aviators rained bombs on Pearl Harbor, starting war in the Pacific, offshore properties are also wrecked and burned. (AP Photo)
Youths inspect the wreckage of a Japanese bomber, Dec. 17, 1941 brought down by a United States P-40 plane during the Dec 7, 1941 attack on Oahu, Hawaii. (AP Photo)
Students of the Lunalilo High School in the Waikiki district of Honolulu watch their school burn after the roof of the main building, at center, is hit by a bomb during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
This is one of the first pictures of the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. A P-40 plane which was machine-gunned while on the ground. (AP Photo)
In this image provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, destroyers in drydock at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii are battered by bombs after Japanese sneak attack on Dec. 7, 1941. Background in dock is battleship Pennsylvania, which suffered only minor damage. Destroyers are Downes, left, and Cassin, right. Machinery and fittings were transferred to new hulls and the destroyers were never stricken from Navy's active list. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Defense)
In this photo provided by the Department of Defense, a battered American flag flies in the foreground at the military barracks at Hickam Field near Honolulu, during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo/DOD)
Rider Joy Cummings examines a Japanese cherry tree that was cut down with the words "To hell with those Japanese," carved into it, Dec. 10, 1941. Irving C. Root, Parks Commissioner, termed it vandalism. In the background is the recently completed Jefferson Memorial. (AP Photo)
In this photo provided by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, wreckage of a U.S. Army pursuit ship is seen after the surprise attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo/U.S. Army Signal Corps)
Ruth Lee, hostess at a Miami Chinese restaurant, seen Dec. 15, 1941, doesn't want to be mistaken for Japanese when she sunbathes on her days off, and brings along a Chinese flag. Miss Lee is actually American-born. (AP Photo)
Also Saturday morning, Bear Down Field will host a dramatically scaled-down, flag-football version of the Army-Navy game, featuring local Army and Navy ROTC members.
All of the events are free and open to the public. Registration for the 5K starts at 8:30 a.m.
Midshipman 1st Class Dominic Estevez and members of the University of Arizona Navy ROTC are reflected in a memorial plaque for the USS Arizona Mall Memorial in 2019. A ceremony Saturday morning will mark the 83rd anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.
“Community members and visitors are invited to attend the memorial ceremony, participate in the 5K and watch the football game as part of this meaningful day of remembrance and unity,” said Blaze Smith, director of the U of A’s VETS and ROTC programs.
