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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-13513 (Color)

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941

The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb, 7 December 1941.
Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace (AH-5).

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

Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

Note:
The motion picture from which this image is taken has been, and continues to be, shown backwards, with the fireball oriented to the left. The image is correctly oriented as shown here.

 

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12 September 2000