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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-189536

Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii


Aerial view of the Submarine Base, with part of the fuel farm in the foreground, looking southwest on 13 October 1941.
Note the artfully camouflaged fuel tank in center, painted to resemble a building. Also camouflaged as a building is the most distant fuel tank in the upper left.
The building beside the submarine ascent tower (in right center, shaped like a backwards "C") housed the U.S. Fleet Headquarters at the time of the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941.
Alongside the wharf in right center are USS Niagara (PG-52) with several PT boats alongside (nearest to camera), and USS Holland (AS-3) with seven submarines alongside. About six more submarines are at the piers at the head of the Submarine Base peninsula. USS Wharton (AP-7) is the large ship at left.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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5 October 2000