Photos Taken in Hawaii | World War II Database

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Aerial view of the Pearl Harbor Submarine Piers at Merry Point, 13 Oct 1941. Also pictured is the U-shaped Headquarters Building for the Pacific Fleet and a tank farm at right. Note one tank painted as a building.	Shipyard Repair Basins at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Oct 13, 1941.	Southeast Loch of Peal Harbor Naval Base, Oahu, Hawaii, Oct 13 1941. The Submarine Base finger piers (right), Supply Depot (center), last 2 berths of Battleship Row (upper left), and East Loch anchorage (upper right).	Aerial view of the coaling facilities in the entrance channel of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 16 Oct 1941. The coaling station was the US Navy’s first use of Pearl Harbor beginning in 1903.

Straight down aerial view of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and drydocks, 16 Oct 1941. There are two battleships at the Navy Yard piers. Note Drydock #2 still under construction.	Aerial view looking toward the sea at Bellows Field, Oahu, Hawaii, Oct 27, 1941. The airplanes on the ramp are probably O-47 Observation Aircraft of the 86th Observation Squadron.	Aerial view looking south at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 30 Oct 1941; note partial view of Battleship Row at left and USS Enterprise at upper left	Overhead view of Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Oahu, Hawaii, 30 Oct 1941, 5 weeks before the attack. Photo 1 of 2.

Overhead view of Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Oahu, Hawaii, 30 Oct 1941, 5 weeks before the attack. Photo 2 of 2.	Vertical aerial photograph of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 10 Nov 1941; note Battleship Row on top, USS Lexington at bottom, and PBY aircraft at upper right	Members of the dance band from the USS Arizona during the Battle of Music semifinal at Bloch Arena, Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, 22 Nov 1941.	Overhead view of Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec 2, 1941. The lines painted on the runway were to approximate a carrier’s flight deck.

Advertisement for silk fabrics that appeared in two Honolulu newspapers 3 Dec 1941, four days before the attack. This ad was said to have coded messages alerting Japanese residents in Hawaii. This copy has been “decoded”	A bow-on view of the comparatively lightly damaged battleship USS Maryland with the burning USS West Virginia behind her and the capsized USS Oklahoma beside her, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	A camera on Ford Island catches the moment the forward magazine of USS Shaw exploded, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, Dec 7, 1941.	A damaged Zero fighter left a trail of smoke above Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941

A view down Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row about an hour after the Japanese air attack began, 0850, 7 Dec 1941. Note battleship USS California listing in the foreground and the capsized Oklahoma beyond.	A view down Pearl Harbor’s main channel during the Japanese air attack, 7 Dec 1941. Note the battleship USS California listing and sinking and note the Ford Island water tower at right.	A view of Pearl Harbor’s Battleship Row from the Ten-Ten Dock at the Operating Base, 7 Dec 1941. Visible are battleships Maryland, the capsized Oklahoma, Tennessee, the sunken West Virginia, and Arizona’s masts.	AD-3 Dobbin, AD-4 Whitney, destroyers Phelps, Hull, Dewey, Worden, MacDonough, Conyngham, Reid, Tucker, Case, and Selfridge, Pearl Harbor, at 0926, 7 Dec 1941