West Virginia Photographs | World War II Database

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USS West Virginia at anchor, Mar 1926; note an Omaha-class light cruiser and two destroyers in background	The US Navy's first flattop aircraft carrier, USS Langley (Langley-class), at anchor with 7 battleships in Culebra Harbor, Culebra, Puerto Rico, 18 Mar 1926. See Comment below.	USS West Virginia entering San Francisco Bay during the 1930s	Battleship USS West Virginia entering Pearl Harbor and turning at Hospital Point, 26 May 1935. Note the radio towers on Hospital Point. Page 1 of 2.

Battleship USS West Virginia entering Pearl Harbor and turning at Hospital Point, 26 May 1935. Note the radio towers on Hospital Point. Page 2 of 2.	Leahy aboard USS West Virginia, Long Beach, California, United States, Sep 1935	Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Ford Island Naval Air Station, Oahu, Hawaii, May 2, 1940.	Aerial view of Ford Island and Pearl Harbor’s East Loch anchorage, 3 May 1940. Note 8 battleships along Battleship Row and 2 more across the channel at the 1010 Dock. Note also carrier Yorktown (Yorktown-class).

USS Arizona, USS New Mexico, and USS West Virginia during fleet operations, Oct 1940	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 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.	Aerial view of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack, 7 Dec 1941; photo taken from a Japanese aircraft

Attack on 'Battleship Row' of Pearl Harbor, seen from a Japanese aircraft, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	Battleships USS West Virginia (sunken at left) and USS Tennessee (right) shrouded in smoke, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	Black smoke pours from fuel oil fires on Battleship Row, Dec 7, 1941. Capsized Oklahoma at left with masts of Maryland, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.	Burning battleships Arizona, West Virginia, and Tennessee at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941

Japanese aerial photo of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during the attack on 7 Dec 1941. Note torpedo plumes rising from the battleships West Virginia and Oklahoma and smoke rising from the Ford Island seaplane base at right.	Japanese pilot view of US battleships and Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	Partially sunken stern of USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941	Sailors in a motor launch rescued a survivor from the water alongside the sunken USS West Virginia during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941, photo 1 of 2