World War II Photographs

NH-83993 View of the sunken USS Arizona's (BB-39) forward superstructure. The photograph was taken on February 17, 1942, as work began to remove the collapsed wreckage. The crane is removing Arizona's mainmast.

NH-84000 View of USS Shaw's (DD-373) wrecked bow section, severed from the rest of the ship by the explosion of her forward magazines during the December 7, 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor. Photographed in the floating drydock YFD-2 on January 11, 1942, as salvage operations were underway. Guns visible are Shaw's forward 5""/38 mounts.

NH-84004 View taken on December 10, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, showing the Arizona (BB-39) sunk at her moorings as a result of the Japanese attack on December 7. Ships in the background include (from left to center): USS Tangier (AV-8), USS Solace (AH-5), a Brooklyn class light cruiser, and the hulk of the old minelayer USS Baltimore (CM-1).

NH-84007 Closeup view of torpedo damage to the USS Oglala's (CM-4) port side midships hull, taken on July 4, 1942 in drydock at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. Oglala had been sunk beside Pearl Harbor's 1010 dock during the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack, but was not herself directly hit. The heavy damage to her hull seen here was caused by the explosion of an aerial torpedo on USS Helena (CL-50), which was alongside some eight feet distant from Oglala.

NH-85716 Photographed in 1939, with a flight of No.820 Squadron Fairey ""Swordfish I"" aircraft passing overhead. The plane nearest to the camera, marked ""650"", is # L9781.

NH-85900 Kongo in port, prior to her 1929-31 reconstruction.

NH-89134 HMS Furious photographed in 1918, with palisade windbreaks raised on her flying-off deck, forward. Note that her dazzle camouflage pattern is carried up onto the palisade strakes.

NH-89173 Hiei underway during the 1930s. She is flying a rear admiral's flag from her mainmast peak.

NH-89281 USS Hancock (CV-19) underway during operations in the Philippines area.

NH-92242 USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) off San Diego, California, loaded with aircraft to be transported to Hawaii.

NH-94650 USS Idaho (BB-42) anchored in Hvaeldefjord, Iceland.

NH-95569 View of USS California (BB-44), taken a day or two after the Japanese raid. USS Bobolink (AM-20), at left, USS Vireo (AM-52) and YW-10 are off the battleship's stern, assisting with efforts to keep her afloat.

NH-96658 Japanese bomb explodes some twenty feet off the starboard side of USS Tangier (AV-8), forward of the bridge, during the Pearl Harbor air raid, December 7, 1941.

NH-96659 Damage to glass windows on the USS Tangier's (AV-8) bridge, caused by a Japanese bomb that exploded off the starboard side during the Pearl Harbor air raid, December 7, 1941.

NH-96816 USS Archerfish (SS-311) off Hunter's Point Naval Drydocks, San Francisco, California.

NH-97255 USS Massachusetts (BB-59) underway at 15 knots off Point Wilson, Washington, on July 11, 1944.

NH-97263 USS South Dakota (BB-57) operating off the U.S. east coast with a destroyer keeping company in the background.

NH-97269 USS Belleau Wood (CV-24) underway.

NH-97340 USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) tied up at Carrier Pier #2, Naval Air Station, Alameda, California. USS Commencement Bay (CVE-115) is in the right background.

NH-97362 USS Mississippi (BB-41) operating at sea. She has three SOC aircraft on her catapults.

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