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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 64305

Salvage of USS West Virginia (BB-48), 1942-43


Removal of a dud Japanese bomb found in USS West Virginia while she was under salvage at Pearl Harbor.
The bomb is visible at the bottom of the view, half-buried in grime.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 165KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 

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28 November 2000