This page features views of USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee in the days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but prior to the start of significant salvage operations.

Images of USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee on 7 December 1941

• USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee during the Pearl Harbor Attack

Other views of sunken and damaged ships at Pearl Harbor, after 7 December 1941


• Damaged Ships after the Attack

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Photo #: 80-G-19945 Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 The sunken battleship West Virginia (BB-48) after her fires were out, possibly on 8 December 1941. USS Tennessee (BB-48) is inboard. An OS2U floatplane (marked "4-O-3") is upside down on West Virginia's main deck. A second OS2U is partially burned out atop the Turret # 3 catapult. Note radar antenna atop West Virginia's foremast. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, National Archives Colleciton. Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 585 Reproductions may also be available at National Archives.
Photo #: NH 50770 Pearl Harbor Raid, December 1941 USS Tennessee (BB-43), at left, alongside the sunken USS West Virginia (BB-48), photographed from the capsized hull of USS Oklahoma (BB-37) on 10 December 1941, three days after the Japanese raid. The mainmast of USS Arizona (BB-39) is visible in the right distance. Collection of Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin. NHHC Photograph. Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 615
Photo #: NH 64479 Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 View of the top of Turret # 3 on USS Tennessee (BB-43), showing damage to the turret and its catapult caused by a Japanese armor-piercing bomb. Photographed in December 1941, shortly after the raid. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, NHHC Collection. Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 605

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