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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 64478

USS Honolulu (CL-48)


Damage on the port side of the cruiser's hull, extending fore and aft about 40 feet from about Frame 40. It was produced by a Japanese 250 kilogram bomb that exploded about 20 feet away during the 7 December 1941 air raid on Pearl Harbor. The blast dished-in the hull five or six feet, resulting in heavy flooding inside the ship.
Photographed in Drydock Number One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 13 December 1941. View looks forward, with the ship's armor belt immediately above the damage area.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Historical Center.

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3 November 2000