NATIONAL ARCHIVE AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
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| The Attack on Pearl Harbor In less than three hours, Japanese planes crippled the U.S. Pacific fleet. Images from the raid — and the aftermath
The USS West Virginia and the USS Tennessee burn. "A huge waterspout splashed over the side of the ship and then tumbled down like an exhausted geyser," remembers Japanese commander Matsumura Midori, who fired one of the torpedoes that hit the West Virginia. "What a magnificent sight." 
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