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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 19-N-26301

USS Curtiss (AV-4)


View on the Main Deck, looking aft from the hangar doors area. Burned-out plane on deck is an OS2U-2 floatplane that was destroyed on board Curtiss during the Pearl Harbor raid, 7 December 1941.
Photographed on the day of the attack, shortly after fires were put out on board the ship.
Note fire extinguisher on deck in the foreground.

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

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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26 October 2000