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A self-guided audio walking tour of Pearl Harbor National Memorial and the ground around it, told quietly and from the shore. It begins at one of the USS Arizona's three anchors, cast in 1911, and goes through the Road to War and Attack galleries, which trace the attack that began at 7:55 a.m. on December 7, 1941, and killed 2,403 service members and civilians, to the Arizona's bronze bell and the names at Remembrance Circle. From the shore it tells the USS Arizona Memorial, built over the sunken ship that is the tomb of more than 900 of her crew, and Battleship Row, then the submarine Bowfin, the Waterfront Memorial to 52 submarines lost in the war, and the Regulus I missile. On Ford Island, reached by the visitor shuttle, come the USS Missouri and the deck where Japan signed its surrender on September 2, 1945, the 429 marble columns of the USS Oklahoma Memorial, the quays of Battleship Row, Hangars 37 and 79, and the Ford Island Control Tower.
15 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 64 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 2 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
USS Arizona Anchor, Road to War and Attack galleries, USS Arizona Bell, Remembrance Circle.
USS Arizona Memorial, Battleship Row, USS Bowfin, Regulus I missile, USS Missouri, Surrender Deck.
USS Oklahoma Memorial, Battleship Row mooring quays, Hangar 37, Hangar 79, Ford Island Control Tower.
One of the Arizona's three anchors, cast in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1911, looking across the water to the memorial over the ship.
A bronze map of Oʻahu marking where the attack struck, ringed by the names of those killed, Medal of Honor recipients in gold.
Alfred Preis's white memorial spanning the sunken battleship, rising at both ends and sagging in the middle, told from the shore.
A Balao-class submarine of nine Pacific war patrols, launched one year to the day after the attack, beside the Waterfront Memorial.
The small teak deck of the USS Missouri where Japan signed its surrender on September 2, 1945, a brass plaque marking the table's place.
Four hundred and twenty-nine white marble columns for the crew lost when the Oklahoma capsized, standing like sailors manning the rails.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 15 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 15 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Pearl Harbor — the Memorial Shore, the Bowfin and Ford Island, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
15 narration points, including Remembrance Circle, USS Arizona Memorial, Battleship Row, USS Bowfin and USS Arizona Anchor. That is about 17 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 15 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.