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Unknown U.S.S. Arizona

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09547.07 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Type: Photograph Date: 07 December 1941 [1942] Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.5 cm. Order a Copy

Taken during attack in 1941 and printed and released in 1942 for the one-year anniversary.
From Naval HIstory and Heritage's online catalog: "The forward superstructure and midships gun positions of the sunken USS Arizona (BB-39), afire after the Japanese raid, 7 December 1941. At right are the ship's mainmast and boat cranes, which were beyond the areas wrecked by the explosion of her forward magazines."

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