Pictures of Pearl Harbor

Planes Caught on the Ground

• Airfield taken by surprise
• Burned and wrecked hangar
• A burned B-17C
• Cleaning the apron
• Hangar and planes damaged and set afire
• Wrecked patrol planes
• Aerial view of the hanger

Ground Forces Surprised

• A machine-gunned army truck
• Burning barracks
• Wreckage in the Naval Hospital grounds

Explosions and Fire

• USS Arizona burning
• USS Arizona on fire and sinking
• USS Arizona burning
• Pillars of smoke caused by oil burning on the water
• Oil burning on top of water
• USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee surrounded by smoke
• USS West Virginia, USS Tennessee, and USS Arizona on fire
• Colors flying from USS West Virginia and USS Arizona, aflame
• A boat rescuing seamen from the burning USS West Virginia
• Putting out fires on the USS West Virginia
• USS Oglala capsized and surrounded in smoke
• USS Shaw exploding
• The exact moment the USS Shaw exploded
• Explosion on the USS Shaw
• USS Shaw when the magazine exploded
• An explosion on the USS Shaw
• USS Shaw burning
• USS Shaw hit by three bombs in her forward magazine
• USS Nevada silhouetted in the fire and smoke of the destroyer USS Shaw
• Burning ship

Bombs

• A bomb crater at the Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor
• Dud bomb found inside the USS West Virginia
• Bomb damage on the USS Arizona
• Men removing projectiles from the USS Oklahoma
• A bomb hole through the upper deck of the USS California

Sinking Ships

• USS Arizona sinking
• USS Arizona laying tilted in the water, 68 degrees
• USS Arizona laying tilted in the water, 90 degrees
• Keel of the capsized USS Arizona
• Keel of the capsized USS Arizona
• Abandoning the USS California before it sinks
• USS California sinking into the mud, men watch
• The sunken battleship USS California
• Flag still flying from the sunken battleship USS West Virginia
• USS Oglala capsized
• The capsized mine ship Oglala

Battleship Row

• Battleship row after the attack
• Battleship row after the attack on Pearl Harbor

Wreckage

• USS Cassin and USS Downes in drydock
• USS Cassin and USS Downes in drydock
• Wreckage of USS Downes and USS Cassin
• Wreckage of the USS Downes
• Damaged bridge structure of the USS Arizona
• Damage on the USS Nevada's port side
• Wreckage of the USS Shaw
• Damaged warships
• The USS Raleigh being held afloat
• USS Nevada beached at Hospital Point

Japanese Wreckage

• A wing from a Japanese bomber shot down
• Beached Japanese midget submarine
• Midget Japanese submarine still in the water
• Midget Japanese submarine beached at Bellows Field

Captured Japanese Photographs

• Aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack
• In the distance smoke rises from Hickam Field

Raising and Salvaging the USS Oklahoma

• Aerial view of the hull, ship in 90 degree position
• During pumping operations for refloating
• Aerial view after refloating
• Men working on salvaging, showing face masks with air supply

Raising and Salvaging the USS Arizona

• Aerial view of port side during righting
• The USS Arizona during righting, 17 degree position
• Foremast structure, conning tower, and top of turret #2
• View from main mast during raising
• Turrets #3 and #4
• Lifting underwater wreckage
• Aerial view from overhead and forward after refloating
• A man emerging from after magazines via turret #3
• A man coming out of turret #3
• A man working in partially unwatered after magazines

 

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Photograph courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.