File:USS West Virginia;014824.jpg
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| Description | U.S. Navy sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. USS Tennessee (BB-43) visible behind West Virginia. Note extensive distortion of West Virginia´s lower midships superstructure, caused by torpedo hits below. Also note 5"/25 gun, still partially covered with canvas, boat crane swung outboard and empty boat cradles near the smokestacks, and base of radar antenna atop West Virginia´s (BB-48) foremast. |
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| Source | U.S. Navy photograph C-5904 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command |
| Author | U.S. Navy |
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| current | 21:17, 6 February 2015 | | 5,721 × 4,534 (6.29 MB) | Cobatfor | new NHHC file |
| 14:11, 6 April 2010 |  | 950 × 744 (384 KB) | Cobatfor | larger photo from http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/03/18/captured-blog-the-pacific-and-adjacent-theaters/ | |
| 18:03, 2 April 2007 |  | 740 × 578 (85 KB) | Editor at Large | Losslessly cropped caption bar | |
| 07:52, 25 May 2005 |  | 740 × 610 (90 KB) | Wwoods | USS_West_Virginia; http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/48a.htm {{PD_USN}} |
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