Return to Pearl

Photograph of the western side of Ford Island and ships in moorings offshore, taken from a Japanese Navy plane during the attack. Ships are (from left to right): USS Detroit (CL-8); USS Raleigh (CL-7), listing to port after being hit by one torpedo; USS Utah (AG-16), capsized after being hit by two torpedoes; and USS Tangier (AV-8). Japanese characters in lower left state that the photograph's reproduction was authorized by the Navy Ministry.Japanese bomb explodes some twenty feet off the starboard side of the Tangier, forward of the bridge.Damage to glass windows on the Tangier's bridge, caused by a Japanese bomb that exploded off the starboard side.USS Curtiss (AV-4) afire after she was hit by a crashing Japanese dive bomber. Photographed from USS Tangier (AV-8). USS Medusa (AR-1) is at right. Timbers floating in the water (foreground) may be from USS Utah (AG-16), which had been sunk at her berth, astern of Tangier. Note weathered paintwork on Curtiss and Medusa.Photos & captions copped from the U. S. Navy. Your grandparents' & parents' tax dollars at work.