1. Naval dispatch from the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) an...
2. Above and beyond the call of duty--Dorie Miller received the Na...
3. Dry dock, Pearl Habor [sic], H.T.
4. Rice Fields near Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii
5. Rice Fields near Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii
6. Pearl Harbor bombing. Nevada underway. Severely damaged and bea...
7. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Utah. Rescue parties are working on o...
8. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS California. The 32,000 ton battleship...
9. Pearl Harbor bombing. Wrecked seaplane. One of the 80 U.S. Navy...
10. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Raleigh. Torpedoed and bombed, the 7,...
11. Pearl Harbor bombing. Hangar fire. Japanese bombs wrecked and f...
12. Pearl Harbor bombing. Drydock bound. The USS West Virginia, sun...
13. Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs ...
14. U.S. Naval Base,Pearl Harbor,Hotel Pier, Arizona St. & Neosho A...
15. Pearl Harbor bombing. Burning oil. Streaming from the shattered...
16. Pearl Harbor bombing. Raider is hit. The Japanese bomber, a thi...
17. Pearl Harbor bombing. Naval air station. This is the wreckage-s...
18. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Oklahoma. Rescue crews are shown here...
19. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Nevada. Beached at Hospital Point
20. Pearl Harbor bombing. After the fire. Battered by aerial torped...
21. Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York City. Road to Vi...
22. Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York City. Road to Vi...
23. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Vestal. This U.S. repair ship, twice bombed by Japanese fliers, was beached after the ship started flooding. The Vestal has since been repaired.
24. Corporal Jimmie Shohara has two ribbons: Good Behavior pre-Pearl Harbor, Rifle and Pistol Citations, 2 of 2, Manzanar Relocation Center, California.
25. Recreation building at housing area three for civil service employees at Pearl Harbor navy yard. This building houses a Marine theatre, a library and is adjacent to a large beer garden.
26. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Maryland. Moored inboard of the USS Oklahoma, which capsized, the 31,500 ton Maryland was damaged slightly and was one of the first ships to rejoin the fleet after the Japanese attack.
27. Pearl Harbor bombing. Stricken from the air. Testifying to the extent of the Japanese sneak attacks are these three stricken U.S. battleships. Left to right: USS West Virginia, severely damaged; USS Tennessee, damaged; and USS Arizona, sunk.
28. Making ready for the intricate wiring of a ship's gun is shown by Andrew S. Horn, a first class machinist from Ohio. Following him up with the wiring operation is R.V. Presby, a first-class electrician, from Tennessee, Ordnance Shop. Navy yard, Pearl Harbor.
29. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS West Virginia a flame. Disregarding the dangerous possibilities of explosions, U.S. sailors man their boats at the side of the burning battleship, USS West Virginia, to better fight the flames started by Japanese torpedoes and bombs. Note the national colors flying against the smoke-blackend sky.
30. Pearl Harbor bombing. Seaman rescued. A small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800 ton USS West Virginia burning in the foreground. Smoke rolling out amidships shows where the most extensive damage occurred. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee is inboard.
31. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Curtiss.Wreckage of Japanese plane, which crashed into one of the cranes, may still be seen on the deck of the U.S. seaplane tender, Curtiss. In addition, the Curtiss was damaged by a bomb explosion on the main deck in the forward part of a hangar. All damage has since been repaired.
32. Coach Edwin Firiera, holding ball, gives his near pond team a pep talk in the locker room prior to their first league game. Seated with the players is assistant to the personnel officer at the Pearl Harbor Yard, Harry Brownell. This team is one of those composed of workers in the various shops at the navy yard.
33. Women aircraft workers. She can't forget Pearl Harbor, and she's determined that Hitler and Hirohito shall have cause to remember it. Mrs. Evelyn J. W. Casola, Pearl Harbor widow, drills rivet holes in the belly gun door of a U.S. bomber, soon to storm over Axis lands, showing death to the aggressors.
34. Corporal Jimmie Shohara, Manzanar Relocation Center, Calif. / photograph by Ansel Adams
35. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Shaw. Hit by three bombs which exploded her forward magazine, the 1,500 ton destroyer Shaw lies a twisted mass of wreckage in the heavily-bombed floating drydock YFD-2. Note the bow of the Shaw lying on its side in the foreground. Part of the drydock, at right, is under water while the other side is listing heavily. Both the Shaw and the drydock are now back in use.
36. Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Downes and Cassin. The jumbled mass of wreckage in the foreground of drydock number one are the U.S. destroyers, Downes (left) and Cassin (right). The battleship in the rear is the USS Pennsylvania, 33,100 ton flagship of the Pacific Fleet, which suffered relatively light damage during the Japanese attack. The Pennsylvania was repaired shortly after the attack. Main and auxiliary machinery fittings of the Downes and Cassin are being transferred to new hulls.
37. Pearl Harbor bombing. Destruction. Smoke pours from the USS Shaw, bombed dry dock (right center) while in the foreground lies the capsized USS Oglala, a minelayer. To the left is the 10,000 ton cruiser, USS Helena, struck by an aerial torpedo on the starboard side. The concussion caused the Oglala, formerly berthed alongside the Helena to flood and she turned over after being brought to dock. At the extreme left, may be seen some of the superstructure of the USS Pennsylvania and at the right appears to be the USS Maryland burning.
38. Japanese restaurant, Monday morning, December 8, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. San Francisco, California.
39. Japanese restaurant, Monday morning, December 8, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. San Francisco, California.
40. Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, Monday morning, after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. San Francisco, California.
41. War heroes to speak to war workers. A heroine of Bataan and a hero of Midway meet at the Capitol to join in Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies. Lieutenant Mary Lohr, Army nurse, of Greenburg, Pennsylvania, recently awarded the Royal Blue Ribbon for gallant service at Bataan, and Lieutenant Robert L. Laub of Richland, Missouri, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as torpedo bomber pilot in the Battle of Midway, will speak to war workers in about 1800 war plants on December 7. They were selected by the War Production Drive Headquarters of the War Production Board (WPB) to participate with Honorable Joseph C. Grew, former ambassador to Japan, in personal messages for transcription as a feature of Pearl Harbor Day observance, which is being held under auspices of war production Labor-Management Committees.
42. Naval Magazine Lualualei,Headquarters Branch,, Sixty-sixth St. ...
43. Leaves berth virtually surrounded by stricken ships. The U.S.S....
44. Italian fishermen gathered on Fisherman's Wharf, on December 8t...
45. Army sentries standing guard at transport dock one day after th...
46. Army sentries standing guard at transport dock one day after th...
47. Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, Monday morning, Decemb...
48. Naval Magazine Lualualei,Waikele Branch,, Near tunnels C-11,B-5...
49. Naval Magazine Lualualei,Headquarters Branch,, Forty-second St....
50. Epping, North Dakota. High school girls singing "Remember Pearl...
51. View showing part of one of the three large cafeterias in the y...
52. Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, San Francisco, Califor...
53. The shiftless and the curious came down on Monday morning after...
54. A Navy band entertains civil service employees during their lun...
55. Mrs. Sophie Deneby of Honolulu is shown sending a pattern while...
56. Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, Monday morning, Decemb...
57. Shipbuilding. Pipes and fittings. Steel pipe flanges in the pip...
58. Shipbuilding. Pipes and fittings. Copper pipe and steel fitting...
59. Manpower. Shipyard workers. Reaming holes in a deck plate for a...
60. Ladd Field, Alaska. Russians as well as Americans like the brow...
61. Don Jackson, a senior, delivering a news broadcast at the Iowa ...
62. Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? Mrs. Frances Ray...
63. Mrs. Hazel Wheeler places screws into electric terminals. Mrs. ...
64. De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. Before the war, Florida was re...
65. Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This sm...
66. Women aircraft workers. Two Pearl Harbor widows work to defeat ...
67. Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget...
68. Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This sm...
69. Conversion. Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. This sm...
70. Pearl Harbor widows have gone into war work to carry on the fig...
71. Dante Electric Company, Bantam, Connecticut. Mr. Dante looks on...
72. Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. There's a war to be won,...
73. Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he ...
74. Conversion. Safe and lock company. This man and the factory he ...
75. Women in industry. Gas mask production. She used to wrap bread ...
76. Lititz, Pennsylvania. Elam Habecker arrives at his office at 7:...
77. Lititz, Pennsylvania. Elam Habecker, real estate man and Secret...
78. De Land pool. Aircraft construction class. Lewis Long, Jr., of ...
79. High school Victory Corps. In peacetime at this woodworking sho...
80. High school Victory Corps. In peacetime at this woodworking sho...
81. A Pearl Harbor widow gives her complete effort toward defeating...
82. Women aircraft workers. Remember Pearl Harbor? She can't forget...
83. Before Pearl Harbor, ninety-eight percent of our rubber came fr...
84. Captured Japanese submarine. A Japanese vest-pocket sub, captur...
85. Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Pearl Harbor widows have...
86. Women aircraft workers. Men and women work together training pl...
87. Captured Japanese submarine. A Japanese vest-pocket sub, captur...
88. Stricken from the air. Testifying to the extent of the Japanese...
89. Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. New consolidated ...
90. Subcontracting (Braden and Van Fossen Works). The speedy equipp...
91. Boeing Flying Fortresses. Guns bristling from turrets, these hu...
92. Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A new consolidate...
93. Flags flies over PT boat. In sea warfare since Pearl Harbor, th...
94. De Land pool. Babcock airplane plant. Interior of the Babcock p...
95. Production. B-24 bombers and C-87 transports. A new consolidate...
96. Hickam Air Force Base, Pearl Harbor vicinity on Mamala Bay, HON...
97. Japanese carrier Kaga
98. Yamamoto, Japanese fleet commander Aerial view of the attack
99. Burning ship 1
100. Burning ship 2
101. Burning ship 3
102. An airfield being attacked
103. Pearl harbor after the attack
104. Steams through heavy north Pacific seas, en route to attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, circa early December 1941. Carrier Zuikaku is at right.
105. Frame from a motion picture film taken from the carrier Akagi. The original film was found on Kiska in 1943.
106. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
107. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
108. Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier (reportedly Shokaku) to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941. Plane in the foreground is a "Zero" Fighter.
109. This is probably the launch of the second attack wave.
110. The original photograph was captured on Attu in 1943.
111. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
112. Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 575 pixels
113. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
114. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
115. Japanese Navy Type 99 Carrier Bombers ("Val") prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier during the morning of 7 December 1941.
116. Ship in the background is the carrier Soryu.
117. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
118. Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 610 pixels
119. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
120. Note: This image is frequently reproduced with the planes facing toward the right. The orientation shown here, with the planes facing toward the left, is correct.
121. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
122. The Commanding Officer of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku watches as planes take off to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941.
123. The Kanji inscription at left is an exhortation to pilots to do their duty.
124. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
125. Online Image: 122KB; 740 x 630 pixels
126. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
127. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
128. A Japanese Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane ("Kate") takes off from a carrier as the second wave attack is launched. Ship's crewmen are cheering "Banzai"
129. This ship is either Zuikaku or Shokaku.
130. Note light tripod mast at the rear of the carrier's island, with Japanese naval ensign.
131. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
132. Online Image: 57KB; 740 x 540 pixels
133. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
134. A Japanese Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane ("Kate") takes off from the aircraft carrier Shokaku, en route to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941.
135. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
136. Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 610 pixels
137. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
138. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
139. A Japanese Navy "Zero" fighter (tail code A1-108) takes off from the aircraft carrier Akagi, on its way to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941.
140. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
141. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
142. Note: This image is frequently reproduced with the plane taking off toward the right. The orientation shown here, with the plane headed toward the left, is correct.
143. Japanese Type A Midget Submarines used in the attack on Pearl Harbor;
144. Japanese Aircraft during and after the Raid; and
145. Miscellaneous Views related to Japanese participation in the Raid.
146. For additional pictorial coverage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, see:
147. The Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.
148. If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's
149. digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."
150. Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.
151. Steams through heavy north Pacific seas, en route to attack Pearl Harbor,
152. Hawaii, circa early December 1941. Carrier Zuikaku is at right.
153. Frame from a motion picture film taken from the carrier Akagi. The
154. original film was found on Kiska in 1943.
155. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
156. Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 615 pixels
157. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
158. Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier
159. (reportedly Shokaku) to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7
160. December 1941. Plane in the foreground is a "Zero" Fighter.
161. This is probably the launch of the second attack wave.
162. The original photograph was captured on Attu in 1943.
163. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
164. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National
165. Archives photographic reproduction system.
166. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
167. Japanese Navy Type 99 Carrier Bombers ("Val") prepare to take off from an
168. aircraft carrier during the morning of 7 December 1941.
169. Ship in the background is the carrier Soryu.
170. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
171. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National
172. Archives photographic reproduction system.
173. Note: This image is frequently reproduced with the planes facing toward
174. the right. The orientation shown here, with the planes facing toward the left, is correct.
175. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
176. The Commanding Officer of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku watches as planes take off to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941.
177. The Kanji inscription at left is an exhortation to pilots to do their duty.
178. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
179. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National
180. Archives photographic reproduction system.
181. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
182. A Japanese Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane ("Kate") takes off from a carrier as the second wave attack is launched. Ship's crewmen are cheering "Banzai"
183. This ship is either Zuikaku or Shokaku.
184. Note light tripod mast at the rear of the carrier's island, with Japanese naval ensign.
185. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
186. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
187. A Japanese Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane ("Kate") takes off from the aircraft carrier Shokaku, en route to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941.
188. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
189. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National
190. Archives photographic reproduction system.
191. A Japanese Navy "Zero" fighter (tail code A1-108) takes off from the aircraft carrier Akagi, on its way to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941.
192. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
193. Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National
194. Archives photographic reproduction system.
195. Note: This image is frequently reproduced with the plane taking off toward the right. The orientation shown here, with the plane headed toward the left, is correct.
196. For further views of Japanese forces in the Pearl Harbor Attack.
197. Japanese Type A Midget Submarines used in the attack on Pearl Harbor;
198. Japanese Aircraft during and after the Raid; and
199. Miscellaneous Views related to Japanese participation in the Raid.
200. For additional pictorial coverage of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, see:
201. The Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941 -- Overview and Special Image Selection.
202. Doolittle receiving the Medal of Honor
203. Lt. Col. James Doolittle, who had been a U.S. Army flight instructor in
204. World War I, was already famous as a racing pilot when he was recalled to active duty in 1940. Early in 1942 he was given a secret mission: Train volunteer Army Air Forces flight crews to take off from an aircraft carrier to bomb Japan.
205. Doolittle "didn't say much, but what he said was the truth, and you believed it," remembers Royden Stork, one of the volunteers for the secret mission. "There was an old slogan: 'There was never an airplane built that
206. Doolittle couldn't or wouldn't fly.'" After a while Stork and the other volunteers guessed that their secret mission probably involved an aircraft carrier. They were taking off their B-25B Mitchell bombers on runways of only 450 feet (137 meters), compared to the normal B-25 runway takeoff of 1,200 to 1,500 feet (360 to 450 meters).
207. The training "got us to thinking about short takeoffs," he remembers.
208. Doolittle with crew on U.S.S. Hornet
209. Late in March 1942 the crew members and their bombers went on board the aircraft carrier Hornet (CV8) at Alameda, near San Francisco. The Hornet rendezvoused with a Navy carrier task force commanded by Vice Adm. William F. Halsey.
210. The plan was to launch the bombers when the Hornet was 400 miles (644 kilometers) east of Tokyo. So secret was the operation that President
211. Roosevelt was not told about it until the Hornet neared the planned bomber-launching site off Japan.
212. Doolittle personally informed the crews on the Hornet, "I don't intend to be taken prisoner. I'm 45 years old and have lived a full life. If my plane is crippled beyond any possibility of fighting or escape, I'm going to have my crew bail out and then I'm going to dive my B-25 into the best military target I can find. You fellows are all younger and have a long life ahead of you. I don't expect any of the rest of you to do what I intend to do."
213. On April 18 large Japanese fishing boats being used by the Japanese as lookouts to warn of approaching ships, were sighted. U.S. gunfire sunk the boats, but they managed to send a warning message. High-ranking Japanese officials, noting that the U.S. ships were 670 miles (1,078 kilometers) away, believed that the carriers would have to get closer to Japan before they could launch aircraft.
214. The U.S. carrier force had to launch the bombers immediately, even though that meant a riskier length of flight. Led by Doolittle, the 16 planes took off, each carrying a ton of bombs and a crew of five. The bombers would be dangerously low on gas when, according to plan, they completed their mission and flew to bases in China, guided, planners hoped, by radio homing beacons. The raiders were then to become part of the U.S. Army forces being assembled there to help nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek fight Japan.
215. The Battle of Midway
216. These artistic representations of the battle of Midway are an important
217. supplement for the historical record of the event. Because the two opposing
218. fleets never came face to face, a number of significant incidents of the battle
219. are unrecorded, and these artworks help fill the gaps. Derived from eyewitness
220. accounts and official photographs, these images are prime examples of what the
221. public was given to visualize this historic encounter.
222. Midway Island Map Griffith Baily Coale #23 Oil on canvas, circa 1942 88-188-W
223. Sand Fort Island, Midway Griffith Baily Coale #27 Oil on canvas, 1942 88-188-AA
224. Coral sand, bright against the deep backdrop of the Pacific sky and sea. The entrance to a mounded shelter is in the foreground. At the left just out of the picture is the big sand covered pier.
225. Task Force Hornets Lawrence Beal-Smith #13 Oil on board, 1943 88-159-KA
226. The operations island is a grim gray redoubt against the sky as this aircraft carrier steams behind her task force screen with a swarm of fighters ready on the flight deck. Planes of a fighter squadron stand at Fly One, the take-off spot. Behind them, in order, will be the dive-bombers and the torpedo bombers. Meanwhile, as signal pennants snap from the truck, handling crews and pilots await the orders which will send these Grumman fighters snarling into the air.
227. PTs and Zeros Griffith Baily Coale #32 Oil on canvas, 1942 88-188-AF
228. On the brightly colored waters of the lagoon, the PT's are skimming about, darting here dodging there, maneuvering between the rows of machine gun splashes, incessantly firing their twin pairs 50 caliber guns.
229. AA Gunners, PT Boats Griffith Baily Coale #30 Charcoal, circa 1942 88-188-AD
230. Navy Gunners firing their 50 caliber guns, send their bright stream of tracers aloft at a Zero as another Zero dives in flames into the lagoon.
231. The Battle of Midway Robert Benny #7 Oil on canvas, circa 1943 88-159-AL
232. A month after striking in the Coral Sea, the Japanese launched an all-out assault against Midway Island in what was obviously intended as the first step of a grand attack upon Hawaii and continental United States. The Navy was ready, and the heroic pilots from naval aircraft carriers inflicted a major sea defeat upon two great converging forces northwest of Midway. The enemy lost four aircraft carriers, at least two heavy cruisers, and a number of light cruisers, destroyers and transport - all by aerial attack. The artist here depicts a withering attack upon a Japanese cruiser by Navy dive-bombers with a fighter escort.
233. Dive Bombing Japanese Carriers Griffith Baily Coale #34 Oil on canvas, circa 1942 88-188-AH
234. In the foreground the Kaga passes across the picture with the planes she sought so hard to launch caught on her deck like birds in a nest, helpless against the swooping eagles. At the extreme left the carrier Akagi is sending up billowing smoke, as towering columns of water geyser up around her. The carrier Soryu is burning fiercely from stem to stern under a cloud of mushrooming smoke. In the center a light cruiser's stern rises up as she makes her final plunge. On the horizon 1000-pound bombs have hit two battleships and both are begining to burn. A zero trailing smoke dives into the sea.
235. This painting is based on the recollections of Ensign George Gay of Torpedo 8, who watched the battle from the ocean after his plane was shot down in the first wave against the Japanese.
236. Air Attack on Japanese Carriers Griffith Baily Coale #31 Charcoal & pastel, circa 1942 88-188-AE