Photos: Pearl Harbor attack commemoration at USS Arizona Mall Memorial

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The 76th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, is commemorated at the USS Arizona Mall Memorial on the University of Arizona Mall on Dec. 7, 2017.

The USS Arizona was a Pennsylvania-class battleship commissioned in the United State Navy in 1916. She went through an extensive modernization in 1929, with new deck armor, boilers, turbines, guns and fire-control. During the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, a bomb detonated a powder magazine in the Arizona and the battleship exploded violently and sank, with the loss of 1,177 officers and crewmen. The U.S. made a formal declaration of war against Japan and subsequently all Axis powers. The wreck still rests at the bottom of the harbor and is now part of the USS Arizona Memorial.

Pearl Harbor commemoration

USS Arizona life ring among museum's Pearl Harbor artifacts

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."