Photos Taken in Honolulu | World War II Database

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Members of the dance band from the USS Arizona during the Battle of Music semifinal at Bloch Arena, Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, 22 Nov 1941.	Advertisement for silk fabrics that appeared in two Honolulu newspapers 3 Dec 1941, four days before the attack. This ad was said to have coded messages alerting Japanese residents in Hawaii. This copy has been “decoded”

A bow-on view of the comparatively lightly damaged battleship USS Maryland with the burning USS West Virginia behind her and the capsized USS Oklahoma beside her, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	A camera on Ford Island catches the moment the forward magazine of USS Shaw exploded, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec 7, 1941.

A damaged Zero fighter left a trail of smoke above Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	A view down Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row about an hour after the Japanese air attack began, 0850, 7 Dec 1941. Note battleship USS California listing in the foreground and the capsized Oklahoma beyond.

A view down Pearl Harbor’s main channel during the Japanese air attack, 7 Dec 1941. Note the battleship USS California listing and sinking and note the Ford Island water tower at right.	A view of Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row from the Ten-Ten Dock at the Operating Base, 7 Dec 1941. Visible are battleships Maryland, the capsized Oklahoma, Tennessee, the sunken West Virginia, and Arizona’s masts.

AD-3 Dobbin, AD-4 Whitney, destroyers Phelps, Hull, Dewey, Worden, MacDonough, Conyngham, Reid, Tucker, Case, and Selfridge, Pearl Harbor, at 0926, 7 Dec 1941	Aerial view of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack, 7 Dec 1941; photo taken from a Japanese aircraft

Attack on 'Battleship Row' of Pearl Harbor, seen from a Japanese aircraft, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	B5N2 torpedo bomber flying above Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941 at 0920; Hickam Field in foreground below and burning American ships in background

Battleship Arizona burning and settled on the bottom as seen from Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec 7, 1941.	Battleship USS Maryland in Berth F5, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941. Note capsized USS Oklahoma at right, USS Tennessee behind Maryland, and smoke from burning USS Arizona in the background.

Battleships USS West Virginia (sunken at left) and USS Tennessee (right) shrouded in smoke, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	Black smoke pours from fuel oil fires on Battleship Row, Dec 7, 1941. Capsized Oklahoma at left with masts of Maryland, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.

Blistered paint and other fire damage to the forward hull of battleship Pennsylvania, in Drydock Number One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 7 Dec 1941	Bomb damage to Hangars 15-17 and 11-13 at Hickam Field, Oahu, at 1700 on 7 Dec 1941; note B-18 bomber in hanger

Burning battleships Arizona, West Virginia, and Tennessee at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	D3A1 carrier dive bomber being shot down over Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941