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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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1 November 2000