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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 64482

USS Cassin (DD-372)
(capsized, right)
and
USS Downes (DD-375) (left)

In Drydock Number One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 7 December 1941, immediatly following the Japanese attack. Both ships had been severely damaged by bomb hits and the resulting fires.
In the background, also in Drydock Number One, is USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), which had received relatively light damage in the raid.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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18 September 2000