Keywords: USS Utah Memorial at Pearl Harbor in 1988.jpeg The American flag flies over the USS Utah AG-16 Memorial at Pearl Harbor Hawaii USA in February 1988 The Utah originally a battleship prior to World War I was later modified as a mobile bombing target and anti-aircraft gunnery training ship Destroyed by torpedoes from Japanese Nakajima B5N2 bombers on 7 December 1941 the ship's remains were studied by U S Navy divers of Mobile Diving Salvage Unit 1 as part of Project Sea Mark a four-year undesea survey and mapping study of naval historic sites The study was conducted in conjunction with the U S National Park Service's Submerged Cultural Resource Unit 6433122 1988-02-29 LCdr Tracy Connors USN PD-USGov USS Utah Memorial Pearl Harbor in the 1980s |