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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97397

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941


USS Nevada (BB-36) headed down channel past the Navy Yard's 1010 Dock, under Japanese air attack during her sortie from "Battleship Row". A camouflage Measure 5 false bow wave is faintly visible painted on the battleship's forward hull.
Photographed from Ford Island. Small ship in the lower right is USS Avocet (AVP-4).
Note fuel tank "farm" in the left center distance, beyond the Submarine Base.

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

Online Image: 82KB; 585 x 765 pixels

 

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19 October 2000