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English: Vertical aerial photograph of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), taken 10 November 1941, with five battleships tied up along "Battleship Row" at the top of the image. The aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2), a seaplane tender and a light cruiser are moored on the island's other (northwestern) side.
Photos: Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 Ford Island is seen in this aerial view during the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor December 7, 1941 in Hawaii. The photo was taken from a Japanese plane.
Ford Island was at the center of the attack on Pearl Harbor and on the U.S. Pacific Fleet by the Imperial Japanese fleet on December 7, 1941. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the island as one of the United States' most-endangered historic sites.
Battleship Row was the grouping of seven U.S. battleships in port at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, when the Japanese attacked on 7 December 1941. [1] These ships bore the brunt of the Japanese assault. They were moored next to Ford Island when the attack commenced.
In early December 1941, Utah was moored off Ford Island in berth F-11, after having completed another round of anti-aircraft gunnery training. Shortly before 08:00 on the morning of 7 December, some crewmen aboard Utah observed the first Japanese planes approaching to attack Pearl Harbor , but they assumed they were American aircraft.
Sailors walk amongst the wreckage of the American destroyers USS Cassin and USS Downes after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. The battleship USS Pennsylvania is ...
December 7th is a 1943 propaganda documentary film produced by the US Navy and directed by Gregg Toland and John Ford, about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the event which sparked the Pacific War and American involvement in World War II. Toland was also the film's cinematographer and co-writer.
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum (formerly the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor) is a non-profit founded in 1999 to develop an aviation museum in Hawaii. [3] Part of Senator Daniel Inouye's vision for a rebirth of Ford Island, the museum hosts a variety of aviation exhibits with a majority relating directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor and World War II.