{"id":14689,"date":"2019-12-24T22:44:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T22:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/12\/24\/next-subs-will-be-named-to-honor-battleships-sunk-at-pearl-harbor\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:02:31","slug":"next-subs-will-be-named-to-honor-battleships-sunk-at-pearl-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/12\/24\/next-subs-will-be-named-to-honor-battleships-sunk-at-pearl-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Next subs will be named to honor battleships sunk at Pearl Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Navy\u2019s two next Virginia-class fast-attack submarines<\/a> will be named in honor of the crews of two battleships sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor nearly eight decades ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas B. Modly<\/a> announced the decision to name the boats after the battleships Arizona<\/a> and Oklahoma<\/a> Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first time since the Dec. 7, 1941 raid that the Navy will put boats with those names into active service, though there is currently a Los Angeles-class attack submarine bearing the name Oklahoma City<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTruly, there is no greater honor I can think of for the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the nation than to build and commission into active service two state-of-the-art American warships carrying the spirit of those heroes of the Greatest Generation, as well as that of their families and the Grand Canyon and Sooner states as they sail through a new American maritime century,” Modly said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\t