USS West Virginia (BB-48) burning at Pearl Harbor 1941
A small boat rescues a seaman from the U.S. Navy battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48), which is burning in the foreground. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee (BB-43) is visible behind West Virginia.
- Date
- 1941-12-07
- Photographer / author
- U.S. Navy, Office of Public Relations
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- image
- Original size
- 2,807 × 2,196 pixels
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