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The formation of ships in Battleship Row (USS Vestal not shown) Battleship Row was the grouping of seven U.S. battleships in port at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when the Japanese attacked on 7 December 1941. [1] These ships bore the brunt of the Japanese assault. They were moored next to Ford Island when the attack commenced.
Moored Battleship row, outboard of Maryland at berth F-5, forward of West Virginia: Tennessee: BB-43 Relatively minor damage, repaired by February 1942 Moored starboard side to berth F-6, next to West Virginia and forward of Arizona: California: BB-44 Sunk, floated, rebuilt by January 1944 at Puget Sound Moored starboard side to, at berth F-3.
Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor after the attack. In 1925, Gen. Billy Mitchell published a report called Winged Defense revealing the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor to a surprise air attack. Mitchell predicted that such an attack would effectively neutralize the Pacific fleet as part of a Japanese invasion of the Philippines. [1]
The Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor destroyed almost 200 U.S. aircraft, took 2,400 lives, and swayed Americans to support the decision to join World War II.
Attack on Pearl Harbor; Part of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II: Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia.
The battleship Oklahoma was salvaged and then scrapped due to her age. The other battleships damaged were repaired and returned to service: West Virginia, California, Nevada, Maryland, Tennessee and Pennsylvania. In the attack three cruisers: Helena, Raleigh and Honolulu were damaged and later repaired.
US ship dispositions at time of Pearl Harbor attack. Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson. Battleship Division 1 Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd † 1 Pennsylvania class (12 × 14-inch main battery) Arizona (BB-39) (sunk) (Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh †) 2 Nevada class (10 × 14-inch main battery) Nevada (BB-36) (Captain Francis W. Scanland)
Oklahoma capsizes during the attack on Pearl Harbor. On 7 December 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was moored in berth Fox 5, on Battleship Row, [31] in the outboard position alongside the battleship Maryland. [32]