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Photo # NH 50770: USS Tennessee, at left, alongside the sunken USS West Virginia following the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, 10 December 1941.

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- World War II in the Pacific --

Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 --
USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee after 7 December 1941


This page features views of USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee in the days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but prior to the start of significant salvage operations.

For views of USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee on 7 December 1941, see:

  • USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee during the Pearl Harbor Attack.

    For other views of sunken and damaged ships at Pearl Harbor, after 7 December 1941, see:

  • Damaged Ships after the Attack.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 80-G-19945

    Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941


    The sunken battleship West Virginia (BB-48) after her fires were out, possibly on 8 December 1941. USS Tennessee (BB-48) is inboard.
    An OS2U floatplane (marked "4-O-3") is upside down on West Virginia's main deck. A second OS2U is partially burned out atop the Turret # 3 catapult.
    Note radar antenna atop West Virginia's foremast.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 585 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 50770

    Pearl Harbor Raid, December 1941


    USS Tennessee (BB-43), at left, alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48), photographed from the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37) on 10 December 1941, three days after the Japanese raid.
    The mainmast of USS Arizona (BB-39) is visible in the right distance.

    Collection of Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 64479

    Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941


    View of the top of Turret # 3 on USS Tennessee (BB-43), showing damage to the turret and its catapult caused by a Japanese armor-piercing bomb. Photographed in December 1941, shortly after the raid.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     


    For views of USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee on 7 December 1941, see:

  • USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee during the Pearl Harbor Attack.

    For other views of sunken and damaged ships at Pearl Harbor, after 7 December 1941, see:

  • Damaged Ships after the Attack.


    NOTES:

  • To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

  • Some images linked from this page may bear obsolete credit lines citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center". Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval History and Heritage Command".


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 21 October 2000
    Coding updated 21 April 2009