the Arizona battleship memorial across pearl harbor from the bow of the foreground aircraft carrier, just under the bow of the carrier is the battleship Missouri.  The Navy has these two next to each other to emphasize the beginning and the end of WWll, the start is the bombing on December 7th 1941, the end of the war was the peace treaty that ended the war with Japan's surrender on the deck of the Missouri,  the ship chosen by the president Harry S Truman, then president of the usa at the end of the war, he was from Missouri.