Features
- There are monuments to the USS Utah, USS Oklahoma, USS Arizona, USS California, and USS West Virginia on the island.
- USS Missouri—which was the site of the Japanese surrender in WWII and was recalled into active duty for the Gulf War—is docked here.
- Luke Field (est. 1919) is located here.
- Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Ford Island is located here.
- The Pacific Aviation Museum is located here. Currently, the museum, which opened on December 7, 2006, is housed in Hangar 37 and there are plans to expand the museum to Hangars 54 and 79.
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Famous quotes containing the word features:
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times—the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie—seem attractive by comparison.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
““It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
And its eyes shut with overeagerness
To see what people found so interesting
In one another, and had gone to sleep
Of its own stupid lack of understanding,
Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff
Short off, and died against the windowpane.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Art is the child of Nature; yes,
Her darling child, in whom we trace
The features of the mother’s face,
Her aspect and her attitude.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)