Mahan-class destroyer, USS Shaw, destroyed during the Japanese aerial assault on Pearl Harbour, 7 December, 1941.  USS Shaw - a ship plagued by mechanical problems from the time of her commissioning in 1936, was in dry dock at the time of the attack, and thus a sitting duck.  In the event, it did not help that her magazines were well filled.  The ship was set on fire by Japanese bombs, and exploded spectacularly when the fire ignited her forward magazine.  Best regards, JR.

Pearl Harbour - USS Shaw.

The sunken battleship West Virginia (BB-48) after her fires were out, possibly on December 8, 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. - USS Tennessee (BB-48) is inboard.
An OS2U floatplane (marked &quot;4-O-3&quot;) is upside down on West Virginia's main deck.  A second OS2U is partially burned out atop the Turret # 3 catapult.
Note radar antenna atop West Virginia's foremast.

The sunken USS West Virginia

Another view of the aftermath of the attack on destroyers USS Downes and USS Cassin, Pearl Harbour, 7 December, 1941.  These ships, along with the 1914-vintage "super-Dreadnaught" battleship, USS Pennsylvania, were in dry dock in the Navy Yard, across the strait from "Battleship Row".  The target of the Japanese dive bomber was, actually, most probably the USS Pennsylvania; however, his bomb fell between the two destroyers, causing a huge fire, with obvious results.  Both destroyers suffered serious damage, and their hulls were destroyed.  However (almost incredibly) sufficient of the equipment and fittings of the Cassin and the Downes was salvaged to allow the destroyers to be recommissioned (incorporating the remains of the original ships) later in the war.

An interesting feature here is that the USS Pennsylvania is flying its starry blue banner on the prow - not evident in the previous photo which I posted of this scene.  Raised in defiance, after the attack ?  Probably.  At any rate, the USS Pennsylvania was entitled to be defiant; she was virtually undamaged, and went on to serve as a bombardment platform in the Pacific to the end of the war.  Best regards, JR.