USS West Virginia (BB-48) and USS Tennessee (BB-43) after Pearl Harbor Raid

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Caption: 
Small craft standing by West Virginia (BB-48) as burning oil drifts past the sunken battleship, shortly after the end of the Japanese air raid. USS Tennessee (BB-43) is moored on West Virginia's starboard side. Both ships are shrouded in smoke from the burning USS Arizona (BB-39), out of view to the right. The censor has blotted out a sailor who is being rescued by the craft in the center. Note the radar antenna atop the leftmost mast of USS West Virginia.
Caption Written By: 
Jason McDonald
Archive: 
National Archives and Records Ad
Archival Identifier: 
NLR-PHOCO-A-74781255
Date Photographed: 
Sunday, December 7, 1941
City: 
Pearl Harbor
State/Province/Oblast: 
Hawaii
Country: 
United States of America