View of the sunken Battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) and the damaged USS Tennessee (BB-43) on Battleship row, Pearl Harbor, several days after the December 7, 1941 attack. A small dory heads toward them. Change of scene shows the USS California (BB-44) listing to port, with tugboat at starboard. She displays the Navy ensign and her deck is filled with sailors and other workers. View from boat (unseen) circling the sunken USS West Virginia. A destroyed OS2U Kingfisher Floatplane near the stern. The ship sunk, but level in the water. A sunken ship being refloated (World War II period).
On the deck of the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) during a fire caused by detonation of a Zuni rocket. Scores of sailors manning fire hoses and working to put out fires raging on multiple aircraft parked on the deck. Thick black smoke in the air. F-4 Aircrafts parked on the deck shrouded in smoke.
Sailors work to extinguish final fires aboard USS Enterprise following massive fire triggered by detonation of a MK-32 Zuni rocket attached to an F-4 Phantom. Firemen with fire hoses near the ship's island. Smoke covers the deck area. Men hold fire hoses and stand in the water on the deck
After a speech by an admiral, Japanese newspapermen are given the news of the declaration of war against the United States on 8 December 1941. A Japanese fleet underway in the Pacific. Sailors on the deck of a carrier. A captain looks through binoculars. Sailors prepare the dive bombers on the ship deck. Japanese pilots during a final briefing. A Japanese sailor erases a board, while another stands before a writing on the ship. Bombers on the carrier deck. Japanese Sailors watch as pilots board their planes and take off. The bombers in flight with bombs attached onto the belly. Japanese bombers drop bombs on U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor. U.S. Pearl Harbor Base under attack.
U.S. Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis arrives at the Pearl Harbor. He is accompanied by Major General Fox Conner. They are greeted by Captain B. P. Duncan and Admiral Robert R. Marvel. They inspect the marine guard of honor. They stand at attention and salute the national flag.
Admiral Arthur William Radford at Pearl Harbor. He talks to Mr Percy C Spender (Minister for External Affairs of Australia) and Mrs Spender. Trees in the background. The men shake hands. United States Secretary of the Navy Francis Matthews and Admiral Arthur W Radford stand together and talk.