
Caption | Japanese aerial photo of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during the attack on 7 Dec 1941. Note torpedo plumes rising from the battleships West Virginia and Oklahoma and smoke rising from the Ford Island seaplane base at right. ww2dbase | |||||||||||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives | |||||||||||||||
Identification Code | NH 50929 | |||||||||||||||
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Photos on Same Day | 7 Dec 1941 | |||||||||||||||
Photos at Same Place | Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii | |||||||||||||||
Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||||||||||||
Added Date | 18 Aug 2017 | |||||||||||||||
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Licensing | Public Domain. According to the US National Archives, as of 21 Jul 2010: |
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This photo was taken from an aircraft flying over the Waipi'o Peninsula looking southwest over Middle Loch, Ford Island, and Honolulu with Diamond Head in the extreme distance. The large dark ship in the foreground is the seaplane tender USS Curtiss that, later in the attack, would have a Japanese Aichi D3A ‘Val’ dive-bomber crash onto her decks.