Sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii December 7, 1941. |
An A6M-2 Zero fighter aboard the Imperial Japanese Navy carrier Akagi during the Pearl Harbor attack mission. |
The USS Shaw burns in Pearl Harbor. Japanese bombers hit the forward portion of the ship with three bombs. The resulting fires proved uncontrollable, as Shaw was ordered abandoned. Soon after, her forward ammunition magazines detonated in a spectacular blast, completely removing her bow. |
The forward magazines of USS Arizona explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb on December 7, 1941. Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace. |
The battleships West Virginia and Tennessee burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. |
all images above from: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/07/world-war-ii-pearl-harbor/100117/ |
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