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USS Shaw Exploding.jpg

Description

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. (80-G-16871)

Source

US archives

Date

December 7, 1941

Author

Unknown navy photographer

Permission
(Reusing this image)

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This image was selected as picture of the day for September 22, 2007.

In the Winter 2004, Vol. 36, No. 4 of the National Archives magazine, Prologue, named this image one of its top ten requested images^[1]

The other 10 were:

Picture of Elvis and Nixon not one of the 10 but mentioned in the article	Shot of American forces during the Battle of Normandy	USS Shaw exploding	Big Three at Yalta Conference
Atomic Bomb named Fat Man is the codename of the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki	Lt. Victor Jorgenson's picture of the VJ Day Kiss at Times Square	We Can Do It! Poster	Result of Slave whipping
Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River	March on Washington, August 28, 1963, shows civil rights and union leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther	Iwo Jima flag raising

Sources

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