Photo #: NH 50472
Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
Vertical aerial view of "Battleship Row", beside Ford
Island, during the early part of the horizontal bombing attack
on the ships moored there. Photographed from a Japanese aircraft.
Ships seen are (from left to right): USS Nevada;
USS Arizona with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS
Tennessee with USS West Virginia moored outboard;
USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma moored outboard;
and USS Neosho, only partially visible at the extreme
right.
A bomb has just hit Arizona near the stern, but she has
not yet received the bomb that detonated her forward magazines.
West Virginia and Oklahoma are gushing oil from
their many torpedo hits and are listing to port. Oklahoma's
port deck edge is already under water. Nevada has also
been torpedoed.
Japanese inscription in lower left states that the photograph
has been officially released by the Navy Ministry.
Donation of Theodore Hutton, 21 September 1942.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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