Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Photo: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library & Museum

HISTORY

The forward magazines of USS Arizona (BB-39) are exploding just after

she was hit by a Japanese bomb; 1,177 Naval servicemen were killed.

Photo: National Archives

Photo: National Museum of U.S. Navy

The USS Arizona (BB-39) burning after the Japanese attack.

A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7,

1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded. The stern of the USS Nevada can be seen in the foreground.

Photo: National Archives

Japanese Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber (Val) drops a 250 kilogram bomb during the

attack.

Panorama view of Pearl Harbor, during the Japanese raid on 7 December 1941, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead. The photograph looks southwesterly from the hills behind the

harbor. Large column of smoke in lower right center is from the burning USS Arizona (BB-39). Smoke somewhat further to the left is from the destroyers Shaw (DD-373), Cassin

(DD-372) and Downes (DD-375), in drydocks at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.

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