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File:USS SHAW exploding Pearl Harbour Nara 80-G-16871 2.jpg

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English: A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded. (80-G-16871)
Date 7 December 1941
Source US archives
Author Unknown navy photographer

Notes

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

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 en:Battle of Normandy

  • en:USS Shaw exploding

  • 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

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Public domain This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
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Orientation Normal
Horizontal resolution 300 dpi
Vertical resolution 300 dpi
Software used Adobe Photoshop 7.0
File change date and time 10:46, 29 December 2004
Colour space Uncalibrated

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