Photo #: NH 50930
Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack
on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island. View looks about
east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm
in the right center distance.
A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side
of Ford Island (center). Other battleships moored nearby are
(from left): Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee
(inboard of West Virginia), Oklahoma (torpedoed
and listing) alongside Maryland, and California.
On the near side of Ford Island, to the left, are light cruisers
Detroit and Raleigh, target and training ship Utah
and seaplane tender Tangier. Raleigh and Utah
have been torpedoed, and Utah is listing sharply to port.
Japanese planes are visible in the right center (over Ford Island)
and over the Navy Yard at right.
Japanese writing in the lower right states that the photograph
was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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