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The first seven pictures are from the Denver Post Pacific War

Collection at:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/03/18/captured-

blog-the-pacific-and-adjacent-theaters/1547/

Denver Post – Pearl Harbor

Photos

December 7, 1941: A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew

member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor,

Hawaii. (AP Photo)

December 7, 1941: This picture, taken by a Japanese photographer, shows how

American ships are clustered together before the surprise Japanese aerial attack on

Pear Harbor, Hawaii, on Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941. Minutes later the full impact

of the assault was felt and Pearl Harbor became a flaming target. (AP Photo)

December 7, 1941: Sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air

Station as they watch the explosion of the USS Shaw in the background, during the

Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (AP Photo)

December 7, 1941: The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over

into the sea during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The ship

sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-man crew. The attack, which left 2,343

Americans dead and 916 missing, broke the backbone of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and

forced America out of a policy of isolationism. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

announced that it was "a date which will live in infamy" and Congress declared war

on Japan the morning after. (AP Photo)

December 7, 1941: Heavy damage is seen on the destroyers, U.S.S. Cassin and the

U.S.S. Downes, stationed at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian

island. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)

Wreckage, identified by the U.S. Navy as a Japanese torpedo plane , was

salvaged from the bottom of Pearl Harbor following the surprise attack Dec. 7,

1941. (AP Photo)

The shattered wreckage of American planes bombed by the

Japanese in their attack on Pearl Harbor is strewn on Hickam Field,

Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)

The concluding photos

are from various CBS

collections