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80-G-411119 Pearl Harbor

Photo #: 80-G-411119 Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii
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Description: Aerial photograph from 4000 feet altitude, looking southwestward, with the U.S. Fleet at moorings. Taken on 3 May 1940, after the conclusion of Fleet Problem XXI. This was four days before word was received that the Fleet was to be retained in Hawaiian waters. There are eight battleships and the carrier Yorktown (CV-5) tied up along the near side of Ford Island, in the center of the harbor. Two more battleships and many cruisers, destroyers and other Navy ships also present. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-411119
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