Posted: 6/29/2006 6:52:45 PM EDT
My uncle sent me these photos. I'm not sure if he knows the original photographer, but he is an old sailor and an amateur photographer himself so I'm sure he probably does. Anyway, here they are with the original verbage attached.
               
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Deej, that is from a few days following. Do you see the superstructers of the sunken ships in the water just ahead of the ships in place? ETA: I may be wrong...... |
I'm going to tell Deej you insulted him....and he WON'T forget!!!!!  
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Maybe so, but I won't have to sport an avatar not of my liking.  |
Quite a while after. Look at the capsized Oklahoma. We had a guy in our neighborhood, back when we were kids, who always stayed in his room in his aging parents' house- never came out even once, although we could see him looking out the window sometimes. We never knew why, and were told to ignore it.Our town had a state mental hospital in it (Foxborough,MA) and we all thought he'd been a patient there. It was a lot more than that. When he died, it turned out, from reading the obituary, that he had been in the USS Oklahoma when it capsized. Removed from the hull apparently by a welder with a cutting torch who cut the bottom of the upturned hull open, like a tin can w/ an opener. He was never the same after that. In and out of VA hospitals for years. Sadly, he died before his parents, who lived into their nineties. 
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I have seen most of these pics before. I bought a small book on Pearl Harbor when I was a kid. Ity was a Bantam or Ballantine book or something like that. The two ships in the drydock ( The one on the right leaning on the one on the left) I believe are the Cassins and the Downes. I am unsure of the names and spelling but I remamber that picture. I'll go through my box of " kid" stuff and see if I still have it. Great pics pale_pony, preserve them carefully. They are a treasured piece of the history of our great nation at one of our worst moments. Amazing what the people of this country do in these moments. I still can't fathom what it was like to live in a time like that. What a great and resourceful generation..... |
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I found the book, it is; Pearl Harbor by A.J. Barker. Ballantine’s Illustrated History of WW2. Battle Book #10 $1.00 Copyright 1969. It was republished in: July 1970, December 1970, and finally in January 1971. With the exception of the cover, the photos that match yours, are credited to the US Navy. Photo #2 Pgs 97 and 98. Aircraft burning on Wheeler Field during the attack. Photo #3 Pgs 114 and 115. The light cruiser USS Helena (left) belches smoke. The capsized mine layer Ogala is in the foreground. Photo # 10 Pgs 103 and 103. Wreckage at the Naval Air Station on Ford Island. Photo #14 Pgs 116 and 117. The destroyer USS Shaw explodes. Photo #15 Pgs 136 and 137. The USS Cassin and Dounes in the dry dock. Photo #18 The books cover which is credited to Denis Piper. (that's how it's spelt in the book) Taking a guess at this, because it’s cropped and at another time frame in the attack. Photo #4 Pg # 138 Rescue operations to release men trapped in the hull of the USS Arizona. The picture in the book is taken later in the attack, there are rescue boats and a circular hole cut in the hull of the capsized ship in the left of the picture. The capsized ship and the one behind it are positioned exactly. |