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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220814-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1941
Country: Pacific USA
Location: Hawaii,Pearl Harbor
TC Begins: 00:19:49
TC Ends: 00:24:56
Duration: 00:05:07
WWII - 1941, Pearl Harbor, Actual Bombing, 07Dec41 - Poor quality, transferred in B/W exists in very bad quality color MS Camera on bow of ARGONNE pans down battleship row showing BBs MARYLAND, capsized OKLAHOMA, TENNESSEE, listing WEST VIRGINIA, burning ARIZONA, AR-VESTAL and BB NEVADA. MS Repeats of above. MS Repeat of scene one & two (This is the best of the three). LS Looking up at attacking Japanese plane; Much flak in sky. MS Another pan down battleship row; This view shows tanker NEOSHO starting to back clear of her moorings at end of row of BB’s. MS Looking to left along 1010 dock at moored CL HELENA & listing CM OGLALA being pulled clear of the cruiser’s side. LS Looking up at Japanese plane under anti-aircraft fire. MS BB NEVADA has past 1010 dock & is trying to reach open sea; She is being heavily bombed forward; her guns are firing back at her attackers; She turns left & runs aground at Hospital Pt. As this action is taking place in the background of scene, the OGLALA rolls over & sinks in the foreground of scene. MS Camera pans rt. to It. showing WEST VIRGINIA settling with a decreasing list: Upturned hull of OKLAHOMA. with MARYLAND behind her. TERN (AM-31) is moored in at 1010 dock. Repeat of scene - MS ST. LOUIS breaks down channel for open sea, guns firing. Camera pans off to the left showing beached & burning NEVADA & SHAW afire in the floating dry dock down channel from 1010 dock. MS Pan- showing part of Battleship row with CALIFORNIA settling in the water, then MARYLAND & overturned OKLAHOMA. The burning oil pouring out of ARIZONA is starting to engulf all of the battleships due to drift in current MS Injured men on stretchers being carried past autos parked on 1010 dock for transport to medical facilities. MS Drifting oil fires from ARIZONA engulfing BB CALIFORNIA - MS Destroyer Shaw’s forward magazine explodes in large fireball. MS Pan across CALIFORNIA after oil fire drifts clear MS BLUE (DD-387) heads down channel past burning oil fires for sea. MS Capsized OGLALA sunken in foreground; SHAW burns in the background. LS Japanese plane overhead is fired on; Heavy flak in air. MS Shrapnel falls in water just off 1010 dock, BBs in back. MS Camera pans across battleship row showing MARYLAND, OKLAHOMA, TENNESSEE, WEST VIRGINIA, & ARIZONA (ARIZONA still burning). Repeat of scene MS CALIFORNIA settling lower in water (she took two torpedoes). MS Another view of OGLALA laying sunken on her side beside dock. MS Pan across CALIFORNIA as she settles lower in the water (Camera man has changed to 3" lens to get a closer view). VIREO in foreground. MS Pan across barracks & HQs of Pacific Fleet Battle Force on Ford Island showing American flag still flying in front of building. CS View of American flag still flying on stern of CL HONOLULU in navy yard dock behind the main 1010 dock. Colour Film has deteriorated to monochromic red - Very Poor Condition Pacific War