Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the USS California settles slowly into the mud and muck of Pearl Harbor. Clouds of black, oily smoke pouring up from the California and her stricken sister ships conceal all but the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma at the extreme right
USS California amidst the aftermath of Pearl Harbor
Depicts the USS California beginning to sink shortly after taking heavy fire from the surprise attack bombings in Pearl Harbor by Japan.
United States. Office of War Information
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