Tennessee Photographs | World War II Database

46 items in this album on 3 pages.


Destroyer USS Shaw with its bow blown away still floats in the now sunken Floating Drydock YFD-2 in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec 8, 1941. USS Curtiss is on the left and Battleship Row in the distance.	Minelayer USS Oglala remains capsized and sunk at Pearl Harbor’s Ten-Ten Dock after being torpedoed in the 7 Dec 1941 Japanese air attack. 9 Dec 1941 photo. Note the fires are out on Battleship Row.

Aerial view of 'Battleship Row', Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 10 Dec 1941. Photo 1 of 2	Aerial view of 'Battleship Row', Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 10 Dec 1941. Photo 2 of 2.

Battleships USS Tennessee (left, floating) and USS West Virginia (right, sunk) at Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row, 10 Dec 1941. The masts of the sunken USS Arizona can be seen behind the West Virginia.	USS Tennessee at Pier 6 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 19 Feb 1942. The photo was taken from the Hammerhead crane at the end of the pier (shadow).

Aerial view of shipping in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard dry docks, 12 Dec 1943. Note USS Lexington (Essex-class) in the new Drydock No. 4 at the top of the photo.	Aerial view of shipping in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard repair basin with Ford Island beyond, 12 Dec 1943. Note the camouflage patterns painted on the roofs of the buildings.

Battleship USS Tennessee bombarding Guam, Mariana Islands, 20 or 21 Jul 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 1D paint scheme; only Tennessee was painted this way.	Battleship Tennessee and a Fletcher-class destroyer provide gunfire support while LVTs raced for the beaches of Iwo Jima, morning of 19 Feb 1945

Battleship Tennessee and other American ships firing on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Battleship Tennessee bombarding the base of Mount Suribachi before the initial landings, causing a huge explosion, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Battleship Tennessee fired her 14-inch guns at targets on Iwo Jima as LVTs headed for the landing beaches, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2	Battleship Tennessee fired her 14-inch guns at targets on Iwo Jima as LVTs headed for the landing beaches, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2

Battleship Tennessee off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Landing craft forming up boat waves in preparation for the initial landings on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

LVT landers carried US Marines past battleship Tennessee toward Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	The first wave of landing craft at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 6

The first wave of landing craft at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 3 of 6	The first wave of landing craft at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 4 of 6