Photographs from the Attack on Pearl Harbor

80-G-32498 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32499 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32500 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32501 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32502 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32503 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32504 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32505 Scene at the Ford Island Naval Air Station's seaplane base soon after the Japanese attack. Several PBY patrol planes are parked on the apron, some near the wrecked hangar at left. The battleship Nevada (BB-36) is beached in the left distance, with smaller ships alongside her bow.

80-G-32506 View looking toward the southern end of Ford Island on 8 December 1941, the day after the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. Planes present include at least seven OS2U, two SOC, one PBY-5, one F4F-3 and two TBD-1s. One of the TBDs may be Bureau # 0289, which was flown by Ensign Theodore W. Marshall, USNR, during his attempt to follow Japanese planes back to their carriers on 7 December. He was awarded the Silver Star for the effort.

80-G-32511 USS Downes (DD-375), at left, and USS Cassin (DD-372), capsized at right, burned out and sunk in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard drydock on December 7, 1941, after the Japanese attack. The relatively undamaged USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) is in the background.

80-G-32596 View of ""Battleship Row"", probably taken on December 8, the day after the Japanese raid, with USS Arizona (BB-39) still burning at right. In the center is USS West Virginia (BB-48) sunk alongside USS Tennessee (BB-43). The capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37) is at left, alongside USS Maryland (BB-46). A barge is outboard of Oklahoma, supporting efforts to cut free crewmen still trapped inside the battleship's hull. In the far right distance is the hulk of the old minelayer USS Baltimore.

80-G-32618 USS Shaw (DD-373) on December 9, 1941, showing damage received in the Japanese attack two days before. Despite the loss of her bow and serious fire damage, she is still afloat. A motor launch from USS Dobbin (AD-3) is alongside.

80-G-32761 USS Widgeon (ASR-1) alongside the stern of the sunken USS Arizona (BB-39), probably on or about December 8, 1941. Arizona's two after triple 14"/45 gun turrets, visible at left, were later removed and turned over to the Army for use as coastal defense batteries on Oahu. In the right distance is the hulk of the old minelayer Baltimore (CM-1).

80-G-32771 USS Shaw (DD-373) on December 9, 1941, showing damage received in the Japanese attack two days before. Despite the loss of her bow and serious fire damage, she is still afloat. A motor launch from USS Dobbin (AD-3) is alongside. Photographed after fires were out, but with the wrecked structure still smoking slightly. In the foreground is the superstructure of the half-sunken floating drydock YFD-2.

80-G-32894 USS Nevada (BB-36) afire and down at the bow, after she was bombed by Japanese planes while attempting to get to sea. Photographed from Ford Island. Note men in Nevada's main top, manning .50 caliber machine guns.

80-G-32896 U.S. Army aircraft destroyed by Japanese raiders at Wheeler Air Field. Photographed later in the day on December 7, 1941, following the end of the attacks. Wreckage includes at least one P-40 and a twin-engine amphibian.

80-G-32906 Men examine the burned-out wreckage of a P-40 pursuit aircraft, near Hangar 4 at Wheeler Air Field, following the end of the Japanese raid on December 7, 1941.

80-G-32908 Japanese Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber ("Val") in action during the attack.

80-G-32915 A burned B-17C aircraft rests near Hangar Number Five, Hickam Field, following the attack by Japanese aircraft. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

80-G-32917 Torpedo damage to the hull of USS California (BB-44), photographed at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard in April 1942, soon after the ship had been drydocked for repairs. This is USS California's forward torpedo hole, centered at about Frame 52. Note armor belt at the top of the hole and bilge keel below.it.

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