PEARL HARBOUR BLOW.—This series of photographs recently released in America show's some of the damage caused to harbour installations and warships during the great Japanese raid on Pearl Harbour, When 19 U.S. naval vessels were sunk or damaged. Upper: Three of the eight battleships-U.S.S. West Virginia (left), severely damaged; U.S.S. Tennessee, damaged; and U.S.S. Arizona, sunk. Middle: The destroyer Shaw lying a twisted mass of wreckage in the floating dock, which was heavily bombed. Both the Shaw and the dock are again in service. Lower: The 32,000-ton battleship California being towed to dry dock after being raised from her shallow resting place by means of coffer dams.
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Evening Star, Issue 24409, 22 January 1943, Page 4
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107PEARL HARBOUR BLOW.—This series of photographs recently released in America show's some of the damage caused to harbour installations and warships during the great Japanese raid on Pearl Harbour, When 19 U.S. naval vessels were sunk or damaged. Upper: Three of the eight battleships-U.S.S. West Virginia (left), severely damaged; U.S.S. Tennessee, damaged; and U.S.S. Arizona, sunk. Middle: The destroyer Shaw lying a twisted mass of wreckage in the floating dock, which was heavily bombed. Both the Shaw and the dock are again in service. Lower: The 32,000-ton battleship California being towed to dry dock after being raised from her shallow resting place by means of coffer dams. Evening Star, Issue 24409, 22 January 1943, Page 4
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