Photo #: NH 50932
Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
Vertical aerial view of "Battleship Row", beside Ford
Island, soon after USS Arizona was hit by bombs and her
forward magazines exploded. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft.
Ships seen are (from left to right): USS Nevada; USS Arizona
(burning intensely) with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS
Tennessee with USS West Virginia moored outboard;
and USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma capsized alongside.
Smoke from bomb hits on Vestal and West Virginia
is also visible.
Japanese inscription in lower left states that the photograph
has been reproduced under Navy Ministry authorization.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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