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The first seven pictures are from the Denver Post Pacific War
Collection at:
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/03/18/captured-
blog-the-pacific-and-adjacent-theaters/1547/
Denver Post – Pearl Harbor
Photos
December 7, 1941: A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew
member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii. (AP Photo)
December 7, 1941: This picture, taken by a Japanese photographer, shows how
American ships are clustered together before the surprise Japanese aerial attack on
Pear Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941. Minutes later the full impact
of the assault was felt and Pearl Harbor became a flaming target. (AP Photo)
December 7, 1941: Sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air
Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background, during the
Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)
December 7, 1941: The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over
into the sea during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The ship
sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-man crew. The attack, which left 2,343
Americans dead and 916 missing, broke the backbone of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and
forced America out of a policy of isolationism. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
announced that it was "a date which will live in infamy" and Congress declared war
on Japan the morning after. (AP Photo)
December 7, 1941: Heavy damage is seen on the destroyers, U.S.S. Cassin and the
U.S.S. Downes, stationed at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian
island. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)
Wreckage, identified by the U.S. Navy as a Japanese torpedo plane , was
salvaged from the bottom of Pearl Harbor following the surprise attack Dec. 7,
1941. (AP Photo)
The shattered wreckage of American planes bombed by the
Japanese in their attack on Pearl Harbor is strewn on Hickam Field,
Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)
The concluding photos
are from various CBS
collections