Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera, 1909-1958.
via: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu
The Commanding Officer of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku watches as planes take off to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941. The Kanji inscription at left is an exhortation to pilots to do their duty.
Recovered from a Japanese Navy aircraft downed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. The chart identifies ship mooring locations and is entitled (at upper left): “Report on positions of enemy fleet at anchorage B”. The chart identifies mooring locations with a radial grid. Sectors and distances are coded by single katakana figures.
Cartoon found in a crashed Japanese Navy aircraft following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese inscription at left reads: “Hear! The voice of the moment of death. Wake up, you fools.”
View of Pearl Harbor looking southwesterly from the hills to the northward. Taken during the Japanese raid, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead.
Large column of smoke in lower center is from USS Arizona (BB-39). Smaller smoke columns further to the left are from the destroyers Shaw (DD-373), Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375), in drydocks at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.
Takes the oath prior to giving testimony during a Congressional investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, during World War II.
Admiral Richardson was the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, from January 1940 until February 1941. He retired on 1 October 1942, but remained on active during the rest of World War II.
via: http://www.history.navy.mil/
A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese port of Nagasaki, the result of an atomic bomb, the second ever used in warfare, dropped on the industrial center August 8, 1945, from a U.S. B-29 Superfortress.
