Photographs from the Attack on Pearl Harbor

80-G-32434 USS Shaw (DD-373) burning in floating drydock YFD-2 after she was set afire by Japanese dive bombing attacks, on 7 December 1941. USS Nevada (BB-36) is on the right, with her bow afire. Photographed from Ford Island, with dredge line just offshore.

80-G-32435 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32436 Japanese planes attacking Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32437 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32438 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32439 Damage at Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor after Japanese attack, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32440 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32441 Japanese Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber ("Val") is examined by U.S. Navy personnel following its recovery from Pearl Harbor shortly after the attack. This plane was relatively intact, except that its tail section was broken away. It came from the aircraft carrier Kaga.

80-G-32442 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32443 USS Nevada (BB-36) heading down channel, afire from several Japanese bomb hits, as seen from Ford Island during the later part of the attack. Ship whose boom and flagstaff are visible at left is USS Avocet (AVP-4). Note camouflage Measure 5 false bow wave painted on USS Nevada.

80-G-32444 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32445 Gunners on board USS Avocet (AVP-4) look for more Japanese planes, at about the time the air raid ended. Photographed from atop a building at Naval Air Station Ford Island, looking toward the Navy Yard. USS Nevada (BB-36) is at right, with her bow afire. Beyond her is the burning USS Shaw (DD-373). Smoke at left comes from the destroyers USS Cassin (DD-372) and USS Downes (DD-375), ablaze in Drydock Number One.

80-G-32446 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32447 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32448 USS Raleigh (CL-7) being kept afloat by a salvage barge moored to her port side, after she had been torpedoed and damaged by a bomb during the Japanese raid.

80-G-32450 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32451 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32452 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

80-G-32453 The capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), with a barge alongside to support rescue efforts, probably on December 8, 1941. USS Maryland (BB-46) is at right, and USS California (BB-44) is in the center distance.

80-G-32454 Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, December 7, 1941.

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