Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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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	USS Arizona burning at Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, photo 1 of 5

USS Arizona burning at Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, photo 2 of 5	USS Arizona burning at Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, photo 3 of 5

USS Arizona burning at Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941, photo 4 of 5	USS Arizona's forward magazines exploding during the Pearl Harbor attack, US Territory of Hawaii, shortly after 0800 hours, 7 Dec 1941, photo 2 of 2

USS California damaged during Pearl Harbor attack, 7 Dec 1941	USS California settling in shallow waters, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941

USS Nevada aground and burning off Waipio Point, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after the Japanese attack, 7 Dec 1941. At right are the harbor tug USS Hoga and minesweeper USS Avocet	USS Nevada moving down the channel during the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941. Note smoke from USS Cassin and USS Downes and also the Gantry Crane spanning the drydocks.

USS Nevada passes the drydocks on her attempted sortie as seen from Ford Island. USS Avocet is at the bottom and the dredge line from the dredge ‘Turbine’ in between, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec 7, 1941.	USS Nevada, down by the head, beached at Hospital Point in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during the Japanese air attack on 7 Dec 1941. Note smoke from destroyer USS Shaw in the floating drydock just beyond Nevada.

USS Shaw burning in partially sunk Floating Drydock YFD-2, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec 7, 1941. Note men at left playing fire hoses in the direction of the drydock.	USS Shaw burning in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941. Note USS Nevada at right already beached against Hospital Point.

USS Utah capsizing early in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941. Photo taken from USS Tangier.	Vertical view photographed from a Japanese aircraft of Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row soon after USS Arizona’s forward magazines exploded, 7 Dec 1941. Note capsized USS Oklahoma

View from the Aiea Naval Hospital of anti-aircraft bursts nearly forming an umbrella over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during the Japanese air attack, 7 Dec 1941. The thick smoke, center, is from the USS Arizona.	View from the Ford Island water tower across the Pearl Harbor turning basin during the Japanese air attack on 7 Dec 1941. Note the Hammerhead Crane and USS Nevada slipping by close to the Ten-Ten Dock.