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(A Japanese Navy "Zero" fighter
takes off from the aircraft carrier Akagi, on its way
to attack Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941.)
Credit: Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections
of the National Archives.
Photo #: 80-G-182252
Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
(View looking up "Battleship Row" on 7 December 1941,
after the Japanese attack.
The sunken and burning USS Arizona is in the photo’s
center. To the left of her are USS Tennessee and the
sunken USS West Virginia.)
Credit: Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections
of the Naval Historical Center.
Photo #: NH 97377
Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
(Planes and hangars burning at Wheeler
Army Air Field, Oahu, soon after it was attacked, as seen
from a Japanese Navy plane.)
Credit: U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Photo #: NH 50473
Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
Donation of Theodore Hutton, 1942.
(The forward magazine of USS Shaw
explodes during the second Japanese attack wave. Photographed
from Ford Island.)
Credit: U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Photo #: NH 86118
Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941
(President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs
the declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941.)
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
(WWII Army Recruiting Poster)
Description: I Want You for the U.S. Army / Enlist
Now
Color poster by James Montgomery Flagg
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
(A dense column of smoke rises more than
60,000 feet into the air over Nagasaki, the result of the
second atomic bomb ever used in warfare, dropped on August
8, 1945.)
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
(Gen. Douglas MacArthur signs as Supreme
Allied Commander during formal surrender ceremonies on the
USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.)
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
(Poster issued by the Office of War Information, Washington,
D.C., in 1942, in remembrance of the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor. At the top, the poster features a quotation from Abraham
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.)
Credit: U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Photo #: NH 72273-KN
"Remember Dec. 7th!"
Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Center.
Donation of Dr. Robert L. Scheina, 1970.
(USS Arizona Memorial)
Credit: NPS Collection
(Aerial view of the USS Arizona Memorial.
The ghostly remains of the sunken USS Arizona are
visible beneath the Memorial. A tour boat rests at the pier
that allows visitors to enter the Memorial building.)
Credit: NPS Photo. Photographer: John Wagner. Courtesy
Impact.
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