The Iowa class battleship USS Missouri (BB 63) approaches its new berth at Fox 5 S-N at Ford Island after a 2,600 mile tow line journey to join the battleship USS Arizona (BB 39) Memorial (foreground) as symbols of the beginning and the end of World War II (WWII). The USS Arizona lies at Fox 7 with over 1,000 sailors entombed in the ship as she sank in the bombing attack on December 7, 1941
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Pearl Harbor
State: Hawaii (HI)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: PH2 Kerry Baker, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
22/06/1998
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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