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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-32480

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941


View taken from atop a building at Ford Island Naval Air Station, looking over Hanger # 37 toward the Navy Yard, during the Japanese air raid. In the left distance are the mast tops of USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), in Navy Yard Drydock # 1. Mast tops in center are those of USS Nevada (BB-36). Smoke is from Nevada and the burning destroyers Cassin (DD-372), Downes (DD-375) and Shaw (DD-373).
Planes in the foreground include two Grumman J2F and one Douglas RD-3. Two SBDs are inside Hangar # 37.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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18 October 2000