The National Park Service is hosting a special preview of its new $52 million Pearl Harbor Museum & Visitor Center at the USS Arizona Memorial in Las Vegas, California and Arizona next week.
Survivors, veterans and those interested in the history of the Pearl Harbor attack and World War II are invited to the preview at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the VFW Post 1753 Fred S. Pennington Meeting Hall, 705 Las Vegas Blvd. N. The preview will last two hours and is free and open to the public.
Scheduled to break ground at the end of 2008, the park service said the new center will replace the current USS Arizona Memorial Visitor Center shoreside facility in Honolulu. More than 1.5 million visitors tour the center each year, the park service said.
The new center will expand the museum and interpretation of the Pearl Harbor attack. The new center is scheduled for completion in 2010 and will be rebuilt in phases, allowing it to remain open to the public. The current center was built in 1980.
The USS Arizona, dedicated on Memorial Day 1962, is the final resting place for 1,177 crew members who lost their lives on Dec. 7, 1941, during the Pearl Harbor attack by Japanese fighter planes.
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