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Phoenix steaming past burning wrecks of battleships West Virginia and Arizona, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	Photo capturing the moment the powder magazine of the USS Shaw exploded during the Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 Dec 1941 at about 0930. Note the after turrets of the USS Nevada passing in the channel at right.

Sailors at Naval Air Station Ford Island reloading ammunition clips and belts between Japanese attack waves, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	Sailors in a motor launch rescued a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941, photo 1 of 2

Sailors in a motor launch rescued a survivor from the water alongside the sunken West Virginia during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, photo 2 of 2; note false color	Scene on main deck of seaplane tender Curtiss after Pearl Harbor attack, 7 Dec 1941; note burned out OS2U-2 floatplane on deck

Seaplane hanger ablaze after being bombed by Japanese aircraft, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941, photo 1 of 2	Seaplane hanger ablaze after being bombed by Japanese aircraft, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941, photo 2 of 2

Smoke rising from Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row as seen from the Submarine base, 7 Dec 1941, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Note submarine rescue ship USS Widgeon at right and buildings of the Supply Base beyond.	Soviet troops on Moskovsky Prospekt, Leningrad, Russia, 7 Dec 1941

Starboard bow view of destroyer Downes, burned out in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Drydock Number One, 7 Dec 1941	Starboard view of destroyer Downes, burned out and sunk in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Drydock Number One, 7 Dec 1941

Stern view of USS California listing to port, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	The American flag, battered and torn, flying at the Hickam Field barracks during the Pearl Harbor attack, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941. This was one of the most published wartime flag photos until Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima photo.

The battleship USS Arizona on fire and sitting on the bottom of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii but with her flag still flying from the flagstaff, 7 Dec 1941.	The overturned battleship USS Oklahoma, sunk by torpedoes in the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941. Maryland is at right and California’s masts and Ford Island water tower are in the distance.

The skies over Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack, 7 Dec 1941	Two Japanese Navy Type 99 Carrier Bombers flew near First Lieutenant Karl T. Barthelmess' US Army 38th Reconnaissance Squadron B-17E, 7 Dec 1941

USS Argonne’s copy of the dispatch from SECNAV (Secretary of the Navy) to ALNAV (All Navy Ships and Stations) directing the execution of War Plan 46 against Japan, issued 0910 hours (Hawaiian time) on Dec 7, 1941.	USS Arizona and other Pearl Harbor ships burning in the distance, photo taken from Aeia Heights, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941