Why Can't You Visit the USS Utah

There's a war grave sitting in the middle of an active US Navy base, and most Pearl Harbor visitors never even know it's there. This is the real story of why the USS Utah, sitting just a few hundred yards from the Arizona, has spent more than eighty years being one of the hardest war graves in America to actually visit — a failed salvage attempt, a decades-long political fight, and a piece of land the Navy never gave back. 🔔 Subscribe so you don't miss the next one 🔔 Sources: Naval History and Heritage Command (history.navy.mil) National Archives (archives.gov) Pearl Harbor National Memorial / National Park Service (nps.gov) Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (dpaa.mil) Congressional Medal of Honor Society (cmohs.org) U.S. Naval Institute (usni.org) Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum (pearlharboraviationmuseum.org) Pacific Historic Parks (pacifichistoricparks.org) CyArk (cyark.org) Utah Historical Quarterly Wikipedia: USS Utah, USS Oklahoma, USS Arizona, USS Missouri, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Mitsuo Fuchida