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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-32548

USS Northampton (CA-26)


Steams into Pearl Harbor on the morning of 8 December 1941, the day after the Japanese air attack. Photographed from Ford Island, looking toward the Navy Yard, with dredging pipe in the foreground.
Northampton was at sea with Vice Admiral Halsey's task force on the day of the attack.
Note her Measure One (dark) camouflage, with a Measure Five false bow wave, and manned anti-aircraft director positions.

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

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15 November 2000