Photo #: NH 64483
USS California (BB-44)
Just after she was placed in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Drydock
# Two, 9 April 1942. California had been sunk as a result
of the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid and was refloated on
24 March 1942.
Note the mud on the ship's propeller shafts and struts and on
the drydock floor below them.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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