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Picture of the USS Nevada


The smoldering battleship USS Nevada silhouetted in the fire and smoke of the destroyer USS Shaw which exploded when her magazine was hit by bombs from Japanese aircraft during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. (12/07/1941)

 

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