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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97417

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941


Explosion of the forward magazines of USS Shaw (DD-373), in the floating drydock YFD-2, after a bombing attack by Japanese planes on 7 December 1941. USS Nevada (BB-36), also hit by the attackers, is at right.
Photographed from Ford Island, with USS Avocet (AVP-4) partially visible at left.

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

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31 October 2000