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"The Yamato class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the largest naval vessels during World War II. Yamato, together with Musashi, made little impact during World War II. In October 1944, Yamato opened on US escort carriers and destroyers and it was the first and last of its battles with enemy ships. It has seen little action during the past four years. Yamato was sent on a planned suicide mission against the U.S. Navy forces attack on Okinawa. On April 7, 1945, Yamato was hit by successive waves of US carrier based aircraft and sank after absorbing 8 bombs and 13 torpedo hits. Out of 3332 crew, fewer than 300 onboard survived. The Yamato has a speed of 27 knots and a range of 7,200 nautical miles at 16 knots. "

"USS Arizona history specifically (BB-39) was laid down on March 16, 1914. The USS Arizona BB 39 was launched on June 19, 1915, and was commissioned on October 17, 1916. After shakedown off the east coast and the Caribbean, she worked out of Norfolk, Virginia. On December 13, 1918, Arizona served in the honour escort convoying of President Woodrow Wilson in Brest, France. In January 1920, it joined Battleship Division 7 for winter and spring maneuvers in the Caribbean. The ship worked out of Guantanamo Bay during this period, and also visited Bridgetown, Barbados, in the British West Indies, and Colon, Panama in the Canal Zone, before it sailed north to New York, where it arrived on May 1. Placed in reduced commission on July 15, 1929, Arizona remained in yardhands for the next 20 months. Upgrades include new masts, new anti-aircraft guns and armor. USS Arizona BB39 also received new boilers and new main cruising steam turbines. It was placed in full commission on March 1, 1931. Arizona was moored in Pearl Harbor 's ""Battleship Row"" on the morning of December 7, 1941, when Japanese aircraft carrier attacked. It was hit by several bombs, and the explosion totally destroyed the forward hull, collapsing its forward superstructure, causing it to sink, with the loss of more than 1100 of its crew members. The wreckage of the battleship remains at Pearl Harbor. In 1950, it began to be used as a site for memorial ceremonies, and early 1960, a memorial structure was built through the ship 's sunken remains. Arizona won a battle star for service in World War II."

"The seventh USS Hornet CV 8 was a Yorktown class aircraft carrier of World War II. The USS Hornet or CV-8 Hornet was launched December 14, 1940 by Newport News Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Virginia, and commissioned at Norfolk on October 20, 1941. USS Hornet is notable for launching sixteen Army B-25s in the Doolittle Raid, as a participant in the Battle of Midway, and for action in the Solomons before being lost to an overwhelming air attack in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. The Doolittle Raid weighed 19,800 tons and stretched 809 feet 9 inches. She had a speed of 33 knots and could carry a crew of 1,889. Planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the Doolittle Raid was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese home islands during World War II. It was the only time in US military history that US Army Air Forces (USAAF) bombers were launched from a US Navy aircraft carrier on a combat mission. "