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| Sponsor Mrs. Florence Tryon, great-great-granddaughter of the ship’s namesake Samuel Nicholas, preparing to christen the Fletcher-class destroyer Nicholas at the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, United States, 19 Feb 1942. | 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). |
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| G4M1 bomber of Japanese Navy 4th Air Group commander Lieutenant Masayoshi Nakagawa, moments before crashing into sea during attack on USS Lexington off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 20 Feb 1942. Photo 1 of 2 | G4M1 bomber of Japanese Navy 4th Air Group commander Lieutenant Masayoshi Nakagawa, moments before crashing into sea during attack on USS Lexington off Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 20 Feb 1942. Photo 2 of 2 |
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| Smoke rising from the port facilities at Oosthaven, Sumatra as Allied personnel set fires during the withdrawal, 20 Feb 1942 | Submarine Growler off Groton, Connecticut, United States for some pre-commissioning trials, 21 Feb 1942. Photo 1 of 2. |
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| Submarine Growler off Groton, Connecticut, United States for some pre-commissioning trials, 21 Feb 1942. Photo 2 of 2. | Portrait of a Japanese Army tanker, 22 Feb 1942 |
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| Ellwood oil piers at Goleta, California, United States shelled by Commander Kozo Nishino in Japanese submarine I-17 23 Feb 1942 in the first naval bombardment of the continental United States in World War II. | A TBD-1 Devastator bomber flew over Wake Island during the American attack of 24 Feb 1942; note thick smoke in lower center |
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| Henley at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 25 Feb 1942 | Plan view, aft, of destroyer Helm, Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 25 Feb 1942 |
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| Plan view, forward, of destroyer Helm, Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 25 Feb 1942 | Salvage work continuing on the sunken battleship USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 25 Feb 1942. Note Arizona’s two after main turrets being pumped out and disassembled. |
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| Destroyer USS Shaw entering Drydock No. 1 at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 26 Feb 1942. | Helm off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 26 Feb 1942 |
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| Henley off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 26 Feb 1942 | Newspaper 'San Francisco Examiner' showing headlines of Japanese relocation, San Francisco, California, United States, 26 Feb 1942 |
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| Burning tanker SS R.P. Resor off the coast of New Jersey, United States after being torpedoed by German submarine U-578. Resor burned for 46 hours after being torpedoed before grounding off Barnegat Light. | Seaplane tender Langley being abandoned after being damaged by Japanese bombs, south of Java, 27 Feb 1942; destroyer Edsall by Langley's port side, men in foreground were of destroyer Whipple |
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