Pacific Wrecks - View from water tower overlooking NAS Pearl Harbor hangers on Ford Island

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View from water tower overlooking NAS Pearl Harbor (Ford Island Seaplane Base) hangers on Ford Island
(Center right) Hanger 54 and beyond burning wreckage after the first wave of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Oahu. At the upper center above Hanger 54 is PBY-5 Catalina 2447 Number 23-P-4 (engines only) warming up, OS2U Kingfisher being towed and PBY Catalina 2454 Number 23-P-11 with the fabric from the control surfaces burned off.
Credit: USN via NARA 80-G-32449 Date: December 7, 1941
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