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Before death brought immortality, USS Arizona’s life included movie role, even scandal

Iain Woessner, Cronkite News Service//December 7, 2009//[read_meter]

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Before death brought immortality, USS Arizona’s life included movie role, even scandal

Before death brought immortality, USS Arizona’s life included movie role, even scandal

Iain Woessner, Cronkite News Service//December 7, 2009//[read_meter]

John Anderson remembers rowing into the burning water around the USS Arizona, searching in vain for a twin brother later found among the battleship’s nearly 1,200 dead in the Pearl...

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