Pearl Harbor Photos

[David Heath]

Very nice Jim thanks

David

[Speedysteve]

Agreed. Excellent stuff Jim.

Any ideas on what is exploding in no.14?

[Ron Saueracker]

ORIGINAL: Speedy

Agreed. Excellent stuff Jim.

Any ideas on what is exploding in no.14?

The USS Shaw's forward magazines while in the floating drydock.

[juliet7bravo]

xxx

[Speedysteve]

Thanks Ron.

That's Cassin in front of Pee Vee on no.15?

[skrewball]

ORIGINAL: Marc_Mitscher

I visited Hawaii in 1999 and spent a day at Pearl Harbour. The deck of the Arizona is just 1-2 feet below the surface and is very visible. Oil is still bubbling up from the wreck. It gives you a very eerie and solemn feeling, since the Harbour does not look that different from that day in 1941...

I read that they are worried about the ecological disaster that would happen when the 200,000 gallons of oil finally spill out of the Arizona's bunkers. ANyone know if they've done anything about this yet?

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: Jim D Burns

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Man..that is one hot fire. The mast, perhaps 30 feet from the flames, is smoldering from the raidant heat and the smoke is being sucked into the fire horizontally [X(]

[mlees]

I read that they are worried about the ecological disaster that would happen when the 200,000 gallons of oil finally spill out of the Arizona's bunkers. ANyone know if they've done anything about this yet?

The National Parks Department has, and continues to, fund studies on this very question. (I read this as what would be classified as "pork" spending, but I am getting more cynical as I get older.)

The debates, heavily saturated with input from enviornmentalist experts, are on what would be an effective solution. Some of the solutions suggested may turn out to lead to unintended side effects to either the ship (which is a national war grave), or the critters living in or around it (which is a protected natural habitat).

Chances are these bureaucrats will talk themselves to death, and only actually do anything after some catastrophic failure has taken place. Then there will be more finger pointing, and the Republicans will get blamed. [;)]

[mlees]

View looking toward the southern end of Ford Island on 8 December 1941, the day after the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor.
Planes present include at least seven OS2U, two SOC, one PBY-5, one F4F-3 and two TBD-1s. One of the TBDs may be Bureau # 0289, which was flown by Ensign Theodore W. Marshall, USNR, during his attempt to follow Japanese planes back to their carriers on 7 December. He was awarded the Silver Star for the effort.

[mlees]

Capsizing off Ford Island, during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, after being torpedoed by Japanese aircraft .
Photographed from USS Tangier (AV-8), which was moored astern of Utah.
Note colors half-raised over fantail, boats nearby, and sheds covering Utah's after guns.

[mlees]

Vertical aerial view of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 10 December 1941, showing damage from the Japanese raid three days earlier.
In upper center is the floating drydock YFD-2, with the destroyer Shaw (DD-373), whose bow was blown off, floating at an angle at one end.
The torpedoed cruiser Helena (CL-50) is in Drydock Number Two, in center, for repairs. She was the first ship to use that newly constructed dock.
Drydock Number One is just below Drydock Number Two. It holds the relatively undamaged battleship Pennsylvania (BB-38) and the wrecked destroyers Cassin (DD-372), capsized, and Downes (DD-375).
Note dark oil streaks on the harbor surface.

[mlees]

USS Shaw (DD-373)

Burning in floating drydock YFD-2 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, after she was hit by Japanese bombs and her forward magazines exploded.

[mlees]

USS Shaw (DD-373) burning in floating drydock YFD-2 shortly after the explosion that blew off her bow.
The drydock has partially sunk, allowing Shaw's after section to float free.
Note men on the beach, at left, playing fire hoses in the direction of the drydock.

(From opposite angle)

[mlees]

USS Cassin (DD-372) burned out and capsized against USS Downes (DD-375), in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard drydock on 7 December 1941, after the Japanese attack.

[mlees]

Blistered paint and other fire damage to the forward hull of USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), in Drydock # 1 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard shortly after the Japanese raid.
Note Jack flying at the battleship's bow.

[mlees]

Capsized alongside 1010 dock at Pearl Harbor, 9 December 1941. She was sunk during the Japanese air raid two days earlier. Preliminary salvage work on her is already underway
"Battleship Row", by Ford Island is in the distance, with USS Maryland (BB-46) in center, alongside the capsized USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Astern are USS West Virginia (BB-48), sunk alongside USS Tennessee (BB-44). Farthest to the right are the sunken and burned-out remains of USS Arizona (BB-39).

[mlees]

Just after she was placed in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Drydock # Two, 9 April 1942. California had been sunk as a result of the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid and was refloated on 24 March 1942.
Note the mud on the ship's propeller shafts and struts and on the drydock floor below them.

There are a whole lot of interesting (to me) pics on the salvage. I will refrain from posting them, but link instead: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/even ... h-salv.htm ..

[Marc_Mitscher]

U.S.S. Arizona



The destruction is very apparent from this angle.

[Marc_Mitscher]

the explosion.

[Nikademus]

Shortly afterward. [;)]

Amazing that they caught the event on film. You can even see the mainmast start to fall foward if you look closely enough before the whole forward part of the ship is enveloped by smoke.