This vertical aerial view of Battleship Row, beside Ford Island, was photographed from a Japanese plane, during a horizontal bombing attack. Ships shown from left are: USS Nevada; USS Arizona with USS Vestal moored outboard; USS Tennessee with USS West Virginia moored outboard; USS Maryland with USS Oklahoma moored outboard; and USS Neosho. Although a bomb has just hit Arizona near the stern, it has not yet been hit by the bomb that detonated the ship’s forward magazines. West Virginia and Oklahoma are leaking from their many torpedo hits and are listing to port. Oklahoma’s port deck edge is already under water. Nevada has also been torpedoed. Japanese inscription in lower left states that the photograph has been officially released by the Navy Ministry.
(Donation of Theodore Hutton, 21 September 1942. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph)