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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 19-N-26297

USS Curtiss (AV-4)


View on the Main Deck, looking forward, showing blast damage to the hangar doors resulting from a Japanese 250 kilogram bomb that exploded inside the hangar during the Pearl Harbor raid, 7 December 1941.
In the foreground is the wreckage of an OS2U-2 floatplane that was destroyed on board Curtiss during the attack.
Photographed on 7 December 1941.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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26 October 2000