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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 84005

USS West Virginia (BB-48)


Is moved to a pier after being undocked from Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Drydock Number One, 9 September 1942. Note the large area of her midships upper hull that must still be replaced.
West Virginia was then under repair for damages received in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid.
A New Mexico class battleship is in the right background.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of The Honorable James V. Forrestal.

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

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30 November 2000