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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-32492 Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941 Sandbagged .30 caliber machine gun emplacement with gun crew on alert, at the seaplane base near Ford Island's southern tip, soon after the Japanese attack. Note wind sock atop hangar at right, PBY patrol plane warming up by the corner of the hangar, another PBY in the center distance, and three SOC floatplanes at left with the beached battleship Nevada (BB-36) beyond. Sandbags are marked "Permanente". Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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8 November 2000