Original Item: Only One Available. Now this is a fantastic mahogany model of the world renowned USS Arizona, which sunk on that fateful morning of December 7, 1941, after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. The model even features the signatures of 4 survivors! Models in themselves are highly collectable items, but models with the signatures of actual heroes and survivors of Pearl Harbor veterans are hard to come by!

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The condition and detail of this model is impeccable. Thought, time and care was put into the recreation of the Arizona in model form.

The Signatures Present:

- Glenn H. Lane: After graduating from Plymouth High School in 1935, Glenn worked at a CCC Camp in Plainview, MN. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Feb. 12, 1940 and was assigned to the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor. Glenn worked in the Aviation Division as a Radioman Third Class, flying as an air crewman on the battleship’s Kingfisher Scout planes.

On December 7, 1941, he was aboard the USS Arizona, when the Japanese attacked. An explosion blew him off the Arizona and he swam to the Nevada, which was also hit. He literally had two battleships blown out from under him. He would eventually be awarded the Purple Heart by the Navy.

- Donald G. Stratton: Donald Stratton (July 14, 1922 – February 15, 2020) was an American veteran and memoirist of World War II who served in the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet. He was in the port gun director of the ship USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when an armor-piercing bomb set off the ship's forward ammunition magazine. Stratton was one of six men in the gun Director who survived the initial attack. Two of the six died in hospital the evening of December 7.

On June 8, 2018 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a dedication ceremony took place to name the bridge for the newly constructed interchange at interstate 25 and Fillmore Street in honor of Donald G. Stratton.

- Milton Hurst: He joined the Navy in 1939 and was assigned to the USS Arizona. Milton was an onboard survivor of the attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. He served aboard the naval carriers USS Ticonderoga, USS Valley Forge and the USS America. During his career he was also stationed aboard naval bases at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., Guan-tanamo Bay, Cuba, Patuxent River, Md, Alameda, Calif., Norfolk, Va., and Jacksonville, Fla.

- Russell McCurdy: “I was on my way to my battle station located on the main mast some 100 feet above the water. There goes the inside of our ship straight up in the air. The ship quivered & shook & the bow raised up in the air.” -Russell McCurdy, USS Arizona

McCurdy was a US Marine stationed aboard the USS Arizona as a member of the USS Whale Boat Team. Out of the 13 members of his team, all were killed in action except for himself and another Marine who died in 1974.

"During the summer of 1941 the Marine detachment engaged in the Whale Boat competition with the Pacific Fleet" by Russell J. MCCurdy USMC Ret.

We raced against other Marine detachments and won. We pulled against all the divisions of our ship and won.

In getting ready for the Fleet Championship run off the Arizona had to field a team.

The ship Capt. Van Valkenburgh thought the best men from each Div. should make up the team.

Major Alan Shapley, our detachment Commander, had been a competitor at the Naval Academy (class of 1927) in football, basketball and track. In 1926 he quarterbacked the Navy eleven that won the National Championship. They went on to play the Un. of Washington in the Rose Bowl. He also was the manager and first baseman on the USS Arizona's baseball team.

With this background in competitive sports and his judgment of our Marine Whale Boat Team, he thought all of his Whale Boat Marines were #1. He suggested to the Capt. that a two or three run off of Marines against the best Navy men would tell the story. The Marines won all the play off races and became the Arizona team in the fall fleet races. We finished runner-up having lost by two feet to the Fleet Champions from the USS Penn. I was a part of that team.

On Dec. 7, 1941, the only survivors of that team were Sgt. John Baker and Pvt. Russell McCurdy. Only 13 of the 87 Marine Detachment survived the Pearl Harbor attack.

This is an incredible piece of history that comes more than ready for further research and display!