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DescriptionUSS SHAW exploding Pearl Harbor Nara 80-G-16871 2.png	English: 9:30AM: USS SHAW (DD-373)'s forward magazine explodes during the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor." December 7, 1941. At right, The bow of USS Nevada can be seen after her aborted escape attempt out channel. Navy Tugboat Hoga (YT-146) maneuvers at the port bow of Nevada whose stern had swung 180 degrees back out towards sea channel after her quartermaster, under orders, nosed her bow into the mud at Hospital point. Hoga and companion tug YT-130 then pulled Nevada free and moved her to the western side of the channel where she settled into the mud at 10:45. Dredge line from the southern tip of Ford island is visible in the foreground. In background at left, smoke rises from Hickam field. A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded. (80-G-16871) National archive number 80-G-16871 Naval Historical Center # NH 86118 NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-80-G-16871
Date	7 December 1941
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Author	Unknown navy photographer
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See also

In the Winter 2004, Vol. 36, No. 4 of the National Archives magazine, Prologue, named this image one of its top ten requested images^[1]

The other 10 were:

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  Picture of Elvis and Nixon not one of the 10 but mentioned in the article
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  Shot of American forces during the en:Battle of Normandy
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  en:USS Shaw exploding
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  Atomic Bomb named Fat Man is the codename of the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki
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  Lt. Victor Jorgenson's picture of the VJ Day Kiss at Times Square
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  We Can Do It! Poster
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  Result of Slave whipping
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  Ansel Adams

  , The Tetons and the Snake River
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  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
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  Iwo Jima flag raising

Sources

1. ↑ By Ellen Fried (Winter 2004
   date QS:P,+2004-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720553
   , Vol. 36, No. 4). From Pearl Harbor to Elvis: Images That Endure. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.