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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 86118

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941


The forward magazine of USS Shaw (DD-373) explodes during the second Japanese attack wave. To the left of the explosion, Shaw's stern is visible, at the end of floating drydock YFD-2.
At right is the bow of USS Nevada (BB-36), with a tug alongside fighting fires.
Photographed from Ford Island, with a dredging line in the foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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3 October 2000