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A small
launch
rescues an overboard seaman alongside the burning
battleship
USS
West Virginia
, which was heavily damaged in the
attack on Pearl Harbor
, December 7, 1941.
USS
Tennessee
is in the background, moored alongside. Completely rebuilt by 1944,
West Virginia
went on to participate in the Battles of
Leyte Gulf
,
Iwo Jima
, and
Okinawa
before being
decommissioned
in 1947 and
struck
in 1959.
Photo:
United States Navy
; Restoration:
Lise Broer
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