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[Bombardment of Pearl Harbor]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09552.08 Author/Creator: Place Written: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Type: Photograph Date: 07 December 1941 Pagination: 1 photograph print : b&w Height: 26.4 cm, Width: 18.6 cm Order a Copy

Image printed on board of Japanese aerial view of attack on Pearl Harbor with Japanese text in caption.
From Naval History and Heritage Command's catalog: "Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on the ships moored on both sides of Ford Island. View looks about southeast, with Honolulu and Diamond Head in the right distance. Torpedoes have just struck USS West Virginia and USS Oklahoma on the far side of Ford Island. On the near side of the island, toward the left, USS Utah and USS Raleigh have already been torpedoed. Fires are burning at the seaplane base, at the right end of Ford Island. Across the channel from the seaplane base, smoke along 1010 Dock indicates that USS Helena has also been torpedoed. Japanese inscriptions at the bottom indicate that this view was published by Osaka University."

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