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Photos: Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 Ford Island is seen in this aerial view during the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor December 7, 1941 in Hawaii. The photo was taken from a Japanese plane.
The Empire of Japan's 1941 attack plan on Pearl Harbor. Preliminary planning for an attack on Pearl Harbor to protect the move into the "Southern Resource Area", the Japanese term for the Dutch East Indies and Southeast Asia generally, began early in 1941 under the auspices of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, then commanding Japan's Combined Fleet.
USS Arizona sinking and burning during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 USS Arizona in the 1950s. During and following the end of World War II, Arizona ' s wrecked superstructure was removed and efforts began to erect a memorial at the remaining submerged hull. Robert Ripley, of Ripley's Believe It or Not! fame, visited Pearl Harbor ...
Extremely high EV and for a World War II photo, is really high resolution (6,404 × 4,543 pixels). The EV alone for this photograph is outstanding. This is probably one of the most famous and well-used photographs of World War II in history. Articles in which this image appears List: Attack on Pearl Harbor; Battleship Row; Naval Base Hawaii
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On 7 December 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, several torpedoes from torpedo bombers hit the Oklahoma ' s hull and the ship capsized. A total of 429 crew died; survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet (15 m) into burning oil on water or crawled across mooring lines that connected Oklahoma and Maryland. Some sailors inside escaped ...
Warren “Red” Upton, the 105-year-old World War II US veteran who was the oldest living survivor of the 1941 Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor, died on Christmas Day, according to Sons ...
After training in the Atlantic, she was transferred to the Pacific and was berthed in a dry dock in Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Shaw sustained major damage from several bomb hits by Japanese forces during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The spectacular explosion of her forward magazine provided one of the most iconic photographs of the attack.