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80-G-19942 Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941

Photo #: 80-G-19942 Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
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Description: USS Arizona (BB-39) sunk and burning furiously, 7 December 1941. Her forward magazines had exploded when she was hit by a Japanese bomb. At left, men on the stern of USS Tennessee (BB-43) are playing fire hoses on the water to force burning oil away from their ship Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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