Attack on Pearl Harbor

80-G-451093: Mosaic of entrance to Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, August 11, 1941. (2015/11/03).

A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded. The stern of the USS Nevada can be seen in the foreground. (80-G-16871)

80-G-182881: Oahu Island, Territory of Hawaii, November 5, 1931. View of the various landing fields on the island. (9/9/2015).

80-G-19940: Pearl Harbor Attack, December 7, 1941. USS Nevada (BB 36) burning during the Japanese aerial attack. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/11/09).

80-G-32546: Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941. Gun crews of Marines, soldiers, sailors fire on raiding Japanese planes, probably around the time of the attack's second wave. (9/15/15).

80-G-32747: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. USS Hoga (YT 146) assisting USS Nevada (BB 36). (9/9/2015).

80-G-32774: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Ships burning after the attack. (9/9/2015).

80-G-33045: Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941. View taken around 0926 hrs. in the morning of 7 December, from an automobile on the road in the Aiea area, looking about WSW with destroyer moorings closest to the camera. In the center of the photograph are: USS Dobbin (AD-3), with destroyers Hull (DD-350), Dewey (DD-349), Worden (DD-352) and MacDonough (DD-351) alongside. The ship just to the left of that group is USS Phelps (DD-360), with got underway on two boilers around 0926 hrs. The group further to the right consists of: USS Whitney (AD-4), with destroyers Conyngham (DD-371), Reid (DD-369), Tucker (DD-374), Case (DD-370) and Selfridge (DD-357) alongside. USS Solace (AH-5) is barely visible at the far left. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/29).

80-G-413507: Half-tone image of a photograph, showing captured Japanese chart of Pearl Harbor from HA-19 piloted by Ensign Sakamaki, Territory of Hawaii, December 1941. (8/25/2015).

80-G-413507: Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941. Chart of Pearl Harbor recovered from a Japanese midget submarine captured after the attack. The chart shows various courses around Ford Island and gives ship locations which do not necessarily correspond to actual 7 December ship positions. Since it presumably came from the midget submarine HA-19, which was unsuccessful in its attempts to enter the harbor, these details probably represent expected ship locations and intended maneuvers by the submarine. Also at NHHC. (9/29/2015).

80-G-638942: Half-tone image of a photograph, mock up of Ford Island and Battleship Row, constructed by the Japanese after the attack in a propaganda motion picture. Photograph received June 24, 1954. (8/25/2015).

Army personnel peer over the wreckage of a downed Mitsubishi A6-M2 Zero fighter. This plane came to rest outside the ordnance machine shop at Fort Kamehameha.

"Appointed by the Secretary of War, pursuant to the Provisions of Public Law 339, 78th Congress, approved 13 June 1944, to ascertain and report the facts relating to the attack made by Japanese Armed Forces upon the Territory of Hawaii on 7 December 1941, and to make such recommendations as it may deem proper. Also, to consider the phases which related to the Pearl Harbor disaster of the report of the House Military Affairs Committee, as Directed by the Acting Secretary of War, in his memorandum for the Judge Advocate General, 12 July 1944". From the World War II Collection (COLL/3771) at the Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH

Attack on Pearl Harbour Japanese Plane View Colourized by HotPot.ai

Imperial Japanese Navy Nakajima B5N2 Type 99 ("Kate") attack bomber, tail code EII-307, part of IHN Zuikaku's second wave attack unit, over Hickam Field during the second wave of attacks at around 0910 Hours. USS Arizona (BB-39) burns in the background. Most sources disagree on the crew's names; the crew was probably Flyer First Class Masato Hatanaka (pilot), Petty Officer Second Class Hideichi Kamino (observer/bombardier/navigator), and Flyer First Class Kingoro Oizumi (radioman/gunner). This B5N2 was part of a three-plane formation led by Lieutenant Commander Shigekazu Shimazaki (September 9, 1909 - January 9, 1945) who commanded the fifty-four B5N2 attack bombers and 81 Aichi D3A Type 97 dive bombers of the second wave. The photo was taken by Warrant Officer Haruari Yaegashi, Shimazaki's other wingman. EII-307 was a last-minute transfer from IJN Kaga; her tail was left brown, and her new tail number was simply painted over. Shimazaki's B5N2s had either two 250-kilogram (550-pound) general purpose bombs or one 250-kilogram bomb and six 60-kilogram (132-pound) general purpose bombs. Hickam Field was extensively damaged in the attack; 139 were killed and 303 wounded. This image was heavily "airbrushed" by the Japanese government to remove identification markings from EII-307; also the background clouds were altered. This image was released worldwide with a caption praising the Japanese "Sea Eagles." (Caption written by: Jason McDonald)

Captured Japanese photograph taken aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Local Identifier 80-G-30549, National Archives Identifier 520599

Chuichi Nagumo (center) in the bridge of Akagi heading to attack Pearl Harbor, 26 November - 7 December 1941

Three Japanese destroyers of the 17th destroyer division - Hamakaze, Tanikaze, and Isokaze - (L to R) anchored in Saeki Bay in preparation for the attack on Pearl Harbor

General view of Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941.

Lot-9430-4: Office of War Information Photograph, 9-11 May 1942. They Fired First Shot For U.S. Forces in Pacific War and Sank Japanese Submarine. This gun crew aboard USS Ward (DD 139) had the distinction of firing the first shot in their country’s reply to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. With the four-inch gun with which they are shown here, they sank a Japanese midget submarine in the first hours of fighting and played a major part in the heroic defenses of the islands by U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine forces who drove the Japanese away before their objective had been achieved. Note, Ward was later sunk by a Japanese kamikaze off Ormoc Bay, Leyte, on December 7, 1944, three years following her action off Pearl Harbor. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). Poor quality image.

Japanese aircraft (presumably Aichi D3A) attacking Pearl Harbor, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

In January 1941, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto began developing a plan to attack the American base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. For eleven months, the Japanese continued to refine their plans while at the same time working diplomatically to relieve tensions with the United States. On November 26, 1941, the main body of the attack force began moving toward Hawaii.

KN-32031 (Color) (complete caption): "The Japanese Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor". Charcoal and chalk by Commander Griffith Bailey Coale, USNR, Official U.S. Navy Combat Artist, 1944. This artwork "... shows the destruction wrought on ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet attacked in their berths by scores of enemy torpedo planes, horizontal and dive bombers on December 7, 1941. At the extreme left is the stern of the cruiser Helena, while the battleship Nevada steams past and three geysers, caused by near bomb misses, surround her. In the immediate foreground is the capsizing minelayer Oglala. The battleship to the rear of the Oglala is the California, which has already settled. At the right, the hull of the capzized Oklahoma can be seen in front of the Maryland; the West Virginia in front of the Tennessee; and the Arizona settling astern of the Vestal ..., seen at the extreme right. The artist put this whole scene together for the first time in the early summer of 1944, from 1010 Dock, in Pearl Harbor, where he was ordered for this duty. Coale worked under the guidance of Admiral William R. Furlong, Commandant of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, who stepped from his Flagship, the Oglala, as she capsized." (quoted from the original Combat Art description). Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Center, Washington, D.C. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/29).

LC-USZ62-49724: Artwork by Alfred Anderson, that reads, “Remember / December 7 / V (followed by its morse-code equivalent of – dot, dot, dot, dash / Pearl Harbor.” Created November 27, 1942. (7/24/2015).