Photo #: NH 50771
USS Shaw (DD-373)
Photographed in floating drydock YFD-2 on 8 December 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. "Battleship Row" is in
the right center distance, with ships present including (from
left to right): Maryland (BB-46), the capsized Oklahoma
(BB-37); Tennessee (BB-43); the sunken West Virginia
(BB-48); and the wrecked and sunken Arizona (BB-39).
Collection of Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Historical Center.
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