Photographs from the Attack on Pearl Harbor

80-G-32953 View looking down Pier 1010 toward the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Drydock Number One, in center, which holds the battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the burning destroyers USS Cassin (DD-372) and USS Downes (DD-375). Alongside Pier 1010, in the center middle distance, are the light cruiser USS Helena (CL-50), listing slightly from a torpedo hit, and the capsized minelayer Oglala (CM-4). Taken on December 7, 1941.

80-G-K-13513 The forward magazines of the USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb on December 7, 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board the USS Solace (AH-5).

NH-50140 View taken from 1010 Dock, showing the capsized USS Oglala's (CM-4) starboard deck edge and embarkation ladder, December 9, 1941, two days after she was sunk in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In the center distance is the beached and sunken battleship USS Nevada (BB-36). USS Shaw (DD-373), wrecked in the floating drydock YFD-2, is in the left center distance. Ford Island Naval Air Station is at right.

NH-50472 Vertical aerial view of ""Battleship Row"", beside Ford Island, during the early part of the horizontal bombing attack on the ships moored there. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft.

NH-50473 Planes and hangars burning at Wheeler Army Air Field, Oahu, soon after it was attacked in the morning of December 7, 1941, as seen from a Japanese Navy plane.

NH-50770 USS Tennessee (BB-43), at left, alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48), photographed from the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37) on December 10, 1941, three days after the Japanese raid. The mainmast of USS Arizona (BB-39) is visible in the right distance.

NH-50771 USS Shaw (DD-373) in floating drydock YFD-2 on December 8, 1941, the day after her forward magazines exploded during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ford Island is in the left distance, with seaplane tender Curtiss (AV-4) at the extreme left.

NH-50856 USS Utah (AG-16) capsized at her berth off the western side of Ford Island, after she was torpedoed by Japanese carrier planes on December 7, 1941. USS Raleigh (CL-7), also hit by a Japanese torpedo, is in the center background, with a barge and tug alongside. The hospital ship USS Solace (AH-5) is in the far right distance. Note docking keels on USS Utah's hull bottom.

NH-50857 Capsized hull of USS Utah (AG-16) off the western side of Ford Island on December 12, 1941, five days after she was sunk by Japanese aerial torpedoes during the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks toward Ford Island, with USS Utah's bow at left. USS Tangier (AV-8) is in the right background.

NH-50931 Torpedo planes attack ""Battleship Row"" at about 0800 on December 7, seen from a Japanese aircraft. Ships are, from lower left to right: Nevada (BB-36) with flag raised at stern; Arizona (BB-39) with Vestal (AR-4) outboard; Tennessee (BB-43) with West Virginia (BB-48) outboard; Maryland (BB-46) with Oklahoma (BB-37) outboard; Neosho (AO-23) and California (BB-44). West Virginia, Oklahoma and California have torpedoed, as marked by ripples and spreading oil, and the first two are listing to port. Torpedo drop splashes and running tracks are visible at the left and center. Grey smoke in the center middle distance is from the torpedoed USS Helena (CL-50), at the Navy Yard's 1010 dock. Photographed from a Japanese plane.

NH-50932 Vertical aerial view of ""Battleship Row"", beside Ford Island, soon after the USS Arizona (BB-39) was hit by bombs and her forward magazines exploded. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft.

NH-50933 Photograph of the western side of Ford Island and ships in moorings offshore, taken from a Japanese Navy plane during the attack.

NH-50940 Wing of a Japanese Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane (""Kate"") that crashed at the Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor, during the attack. This plane came from the aircraft carrier Kaga. Its ""Rising Sun"" insignia has been largely cut away by souvenir hunters.

NH-54559 USS Downes (DD-375), nearest to camera, and USS Cassin (DD-372), capsized against Downes in Drydock Number One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, December 8, 1941, the day after they were wrecked by Japanese bombs and the resulting fires.

NH-57670 Vertical aerial view of ""Battleship Row"", beside Ford Island, on December 10, 1941, three days after the Japanese raid. Ships seen are (from left to right): USS Arizona (BB-39), burned out and sunk, with oil streaming from her bunkers; USS Tennessee (BB-43) with USS West Virginia (BB-48) sunk alongside; and USS Maryland (BB-46) with USS Oklahoma (BB-37) capsized alongside.

NH-60672 USS Oglala (CM-4) capsized alongside 1010 dock at Pearl Harbor, December 9, 1941. She was sunk during the Japanese air raid two day earlier. Preliminary salvage work on her is already underway. ""Battleship Row"", by Ford Island is in the distance, with USS Maryland (BB-46) in center, alongside the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Astern are USS West Virginia (BB-48), sunk alongside USS Tennessee (BB-44). Farthest to the right are the sunken and burned-out remains of USS Arizona (BB-39).

NH-63918 Burned out and sunk in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 10, 1941, USS Arizona (BB-39) three days after she was destroyed during the December 7 Japanese raid. Ships in the background are USS Saint Louis (CL-49), in center, and the USS Baltimore (CM-1) at left.

NH-64473 Wrecked USS Arizona (BB-39) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 12, 1941.

NH-64474 Tugs and other ships trying to keep USS California (BB-44) afloat, soon after the Japanese torpedoed and bombed her at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941.

NH-64479 View of the top of Turret #3 on USS Tennessee (BB-43), showing damage to the turret and its catapult caused by a Japanese armor-piercing bomb. Photographed in December 1941, shortly after the raid.

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