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Rarely seen photos of the USS ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥, sunk Dec. 7, 1941, in Pearl Harbor

The USS ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ 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 may have detonated a powder magazine at the midships gun turret 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 the following day. Germany and Italy then declared war on the United States, which the U.S. reciprocated on Dec. 11.

The USS ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ still rests at the bottom of the harbor and is now part of the USS ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Memorial. The ship and all of her crew are memorialized at the University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Mall.

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