Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor as seen from Aiea shortly after the last planes of the Japanese First Air Fleet left the scene. Columns of smoke rise from the devestation caused by the attack. The buildings in the foreground are believed to be a pineapple processing plant. Official Navy Photograph# B-23590

Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941 The Japanese also struck at Oahu's airfields. This scene is at one of the two naval air stations taken after the attack. Official Navy Photograph# B-23572

Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941 The U.S.S. Arizona taken from a distance. Official Navy Photograph# N-3101

Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941 The U.S.S. Arizona. The formast and bridge collapsed forward at a 45-degree angle when the forward section of the ship was destroyed by the magazine explosion. Official Navy Photograph# N-3097

Descrpitive information is compiled
from the following sources:
The Attack on Pearl Harbor - A Pictorial History
by Stan Cohen
Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Inc.
Pearl Harbor - And the War in the Pacific
by Salamander Books Ltd.
Pearl Harbor - America's Darkest Day
by Susan Wels
Time-Life Books

Photographs shown on this page are from a collection of Official Navy Pearl Harbor photographs on loan from Jackson Barracks Military Library, Louisiana National Guard, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

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