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Robert F. Walden Collection

Digital Images

USS West Virginia

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USS West Virginia | USS Maryland | Civilian Housing Area III | Pearl Harbor Panorama

Additional details and descriptive notes for these images can be found on page 13 of the Photograph Inventory of the Robert F. Walden Collection. For information about copyright status or permission to reproduce these images, please contact the Archives & Manuscripts Department.


USS Tennessee, USS West Virginia, and USS Oklahoma

Description: No. 2. USS Tennessee, USS West Virginia and USS Oklahoma (right to left). USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia from port bow, starboard bilge to keel aft of USS Oklahoma in right foreground.

Date: 10 December 1941

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 01


USS West Virginia damage

Description: USS West Virginia: 3/4 rear view showing general damage. USS West Virginia (left) and USS Tennessee (right).

Date: 12 December 1941

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 02


USS West Virginia damage

Description: [Appears to be an inversion of WVa 02] USS West Virginia.

Date: Undated

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 03


USS West Virginia damage

Description: USS West Virginia showing collapsed gun deck.

Date: 12 December 1941

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 04


USS West Virginia damage

Description: [Caption on image] USS West Virginia 1-5-42. [Caption on back] View of USS West Virginia showing effect of bomb and fire damage.

Date: 12 December 1941 [Stamped on back] or 5 January 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 05


USS West Virginia damage

Description: USS West Virginia. A brace for patch frames 43-52. Port Side.

Date: 16 March 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 07


USS West Virginia patch

Description: USS West Virginia. Lowering patch into position. Frames 73-76.

Date: 24 April 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 08


USS West Virginia patch

Description: USS West Virginia. Patch in vertical position for lowering. Bolts on forward edge for securing in place.

Date: 24 April 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 09


USS West Virginia en route to dry dock

Description: No Caption. [USS West Virginia raised and en route to dry dock for temporary repairs. The capsized USS Oklahoma is in the background.]

Date: [May 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 10


Preparing to refloat the USS West Virginia

Description: No caption. [Preparing to refloat the USS West Virginia.]

Date: Undated

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 11


USS West Virginia patch

Description: USS West Virginia. Short patch, port side.

Date: 5 May 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 12


USS West Virginia en route to dry dock

Description: USS West Virginia en route to No. 1 Dry Dock.

Date: 9 June 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 13


USS West Virginia en route to dry dock

Description: USS West Virginia headed for dry dock.

Date: [9 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 14


USS West Virginia en route to dry dock

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia en route to dry dock.]

Date: [9 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 15


USS West Virginia entering dry dock

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia coming in to dry dock.]

Date: [9 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 16


USS West Virginia entering dry dock

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia coming in to dry dock.]

Date: [9 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 17


USS West Virginia in dry dock

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock. Shows 2 patches that kept water out of the ship on the way to the dry dock.]

Date: [1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVA 18


USS West Virginia in dry dock

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock.]

Date: [1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 19


USS West Virginia in dry dock

Description: USS West Virginia. Port side looking forward at about frame 96. Removing patch?

Date: 11 June 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 20


USS West Virginia in dry dock

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock. Port side looking aft, showing distortion in the armor belt.]

Date: [11 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 21


USS West Virginia in dry dock

Description: No caption. [ USS West Virginia in dry dock.]

Date: [June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 22


USS West Virginia patches

Description: USS West Virginia: removing concrete patches.

Date: [June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 23


USS West Virginia patches

Description: USS West Virginia. General view looking aft along the port side. The central portion of each patch has been removed. The patches extend from frames 43 to 52 and from frame 61 to frame 96.

Date: 11 June 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 24


USS West Virginia torpedo damage

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing torpedo damage on the port side.]

Date: [13 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 25


USS West Virginia torpedo damage

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing torpedo damage on the port side.]

Date: [13 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 26


USS West Virginia repair

Description: USS West Virginia. View looking aft at an angle of 45 degrees with the center line of the ship. Shows main, upper, and superstructure decks being cut away in way of wreckage.

Date: 15 June 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 27a


USS West Virginia repair

Description: [Same as WVa 27a] No caption. [USS West Virginia. View looking aft at an angle of 45 degrees with the center line of the ship. Shows main, upper and superstructure decks being cut away in way of wreckage.]

Date: [15 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 27b


USS West Virginia repair

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]

Date: [16 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 28


USS West Virginia repair

Description: USS West Virginia 16 June 1942. 1873-42. View from aloft off the port beam. Note that the king-post of the port boat crane has been removed.

Date: 16 June 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 29


USS West Virginia repair

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]

Date: [16 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 30


USS West Virginia in dry dock

Description: USS West Virginia in dry dock No. 1.

Date: 16 June 1942

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 31a


USS West Virginia in dry dock

Description: [Same as WVa 31a] No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]

Date: [16 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 31b


USS West Virginia in dry dock

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock.]

Date: [16 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 32


USS West Virginia repair

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]

Date: [16 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 33


USS West Virginia repair

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]

Date: [June 1942?]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 34


USS West Virginia repair

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]

Date: [26 June 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 35


USS West Virginia repaired hull

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing repaired hull.]

Date: [6 September 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 36


USS West Virginia leaving dry dock

Description: USS West Virginia headed for Bremerton after leaving the dry dock.

Date: [9 September 1942]

Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Collection: Robert F. Walden Collection

ID Number: WVa 37

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