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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-19947 Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 Fighting fires on the sunken battleship West Virginia (BB-48), 7 December 1941. The garbage lighter YG-17 is at right, with her crewmen playing two fire hoses at the flames. Assisting or standing by are a motor launch and an officer's motorboat. USS Tennessee (BB-48) is inboard of West Virginia. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 595 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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18 October 2000