Photo #: NH 64485
Salvage of USS Nevada (BB-36), 1941-42
Window frame patch being fabricated in the Shipfitter Shop at
the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard in early January 1942. It was used
to temporarily seal a bomb hole in Nevada port bow while
she was under salvage.
Nevada had sunk in Pearl Harbor as a result of bomb and
torpedo damage received in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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