Photo #: NH 50929
Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken from a Japanese plane
during the torpedo attack on the ships moored on both sides of
Ford Island. View looks about southeast, with Honolulu and Diamond
Head in the right distance.
Torpedoes have just struck USS West Virginia and USS Oklahoma
on the far side of Ford Island.
On the near side of the island, toward the left, USS Utah
and USS Raleigh have already been torpedoed.
Fires are burning at the seaplane base, at the right end of Ford
Island. Across the channel from the seaplane base, smoke along
1010 Dock indicates that USS Helena has also been torpedoed.
Japanese inscriptions at the bottom indicate that this view was
published by Osaka University.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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