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Robert F. Walden Collection Digital Images - U.S.S. West Virginia

All photographs come from the Robert F. Walden Collection and depict the salvage operations at Pearl Harbor, Hawaiʻi. 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 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library.

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
ID Number: WVa 01

Description: USS West Virginia: 3/4 rear view showing general damage. USS West Virginia (left) and USS Tennessee (right).
Date: 12 December 1941
ID Number: WVa 02

Description: [Appears to be an inversion of WVa 02] USS West Virginia.
Date: Undated
ID Number: WVa 03

Description: USS West Virginia showing collapsed gun deck.
Date: 12 December 1941
ID Number: WVa 04

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
ID Number: WVa 05

Description: USS West Virginia. A brace for patch frames 43-52. Port Side.
Date: 16 March 1942
ID Number: WVa 07

Description: USS West Virginia. Lowering patch into position. Frames 73-76.
Date: 24 April 1942
ID Number: WVa 08

Description: USS West Virginia. Patch in vertical position for lowering. Bolts on forward edge for securing in place.
Date: 24 April 1942
ID Number: WVa 09

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]
ID Number: WVa 10

Description: No caption. [Preparing to refloat the USS West Virginia.]
Date: Undated
ID Number: WVa 11

Description: USS West Virginia. Short patch, port side.
Date: 5 May 1942
ID Number: WVa 12

Description: USS West Virginia en route to No. 1 Dry Dock.
Date: 9 June 1942
ID Number: WVa 13

Description: USS West Virginia headed for dry dock.
Date: [9 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 14

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia en route to dry dock.]
Date: [9 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 15

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia coming in to dry dock.]
Date: [9 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 16

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia coming in to dry dock.]
Date: [9 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 17

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]
ID Number: WVA 18

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock.]
Date: [1942]
ID Number: WVa 19

Description: USS West Virginia. Port side looking forward at about frame 96. Removing patch?
Date: 11 June 1942
ID Number: WVa 20

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock. Port side looking aft, showing distortion in the armor belt.]
Date: [11 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 21

Description: No caption. [ USS West Virginia in dry dock.]
Date: [June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 22

Description: USS West Virginia: removing concrete patches.
Date: [June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 23

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
ID Number: WVa 24

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing torpedo damage on the port side.]
Date: [13 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 25

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing torpedo damage on the port side.]
Date: [13 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 26

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
ID Number: WVa 27a

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]
ID Number: WVa 27b

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]
Date: [16 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 28

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
ID Number: WVa 29

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]
Date: [16 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 30

Description: USS West Virginia in dry dock No. 1.
Date: 16 June 1942
ID Number: WVa 31a

Description: [Same as WVa 31a] No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]
Date: [16 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 31b

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock.]
Date: [16 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 32

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]
Date: [16 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 33

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]
Date: [June 1942?]
ID Number: WVa 34

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing port side damage under repair.]
Date: [26 June 1942]
ID Number: WVa 35

Description: No caption. [USS West Virginia in dry dock showing repaired hull.]
Date: [6 September 1942]
ID Number: WVa 36

Description: USS West Virginia headed for Bremerton after leaving the dry dock.
Date: [9 September 1942]
ID Number: WVa 37

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