U.S. Navy Battleship Oklahoma's Deck Breaks Water
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09547.04 Author/Creator: U.S. Navy Place Written: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Type: Photograph Date: 24 May 1943 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 17.9 cm. Order a Copy
Label on front of photograph reads: (WX1) PEARL HARBOR, May 24-- BATTLESHIP OKLAHOMA'S DECK BREAKS WATER---Barnacled deck of the U.S. Battleship Oklahoma breaks water during salvage operations which returned to service 16 of 19 ships sunk by Japs in December 7, 1941 attack. Cables by which ship was rights are seen in foreground at water line at left. (AP WIREPHOTO FROM U.S. NAVY)
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