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.
Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier (Shokaku distinguisable from the white band on the fuselage just ahead of the tail) to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941. Plane in the foreground is a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
USS California sinking.
A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw eplodes.
USS Arizona, March 1931
USS Arizona sunk at in Pearl Harbor. The ship is resting level on the bottom. The supporting structure for the gun director tripod mast has collapsed and so the mast has tilted.
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Great images of a terrible day. Unforgettable.
David Gillaspie