Item Description
Original Item: One-of-a-kind. These are two original photo albums with dozens and dozens of original period photos.
The first is a Pre WWI USS Raleigh photo album marked "photographs" on the cover. The contents include pictures of the USS Raleigh dated 1906, the USS Raleigh baseball team, the Japanese army, scenery, and so on. The album has some very unique photos of life in the US Navy in the early 1900s. CONDITION: The cover and pages have wear on the top corners. The postcards and photos are mostly clean wish some exhibiting fading. Overall very good.
The second is a WWI era RARE USS Arizona photo album marked "Pictorial log / U.S.S. Arizona" on the cover. The contents include destruction, which is most likely France immediately after WWI, Sailors, scenery, and so on. There are also pictures of battleships including the USS Mississippi, USS Oklahoma, and USS Arizona. The back of the album has nice contents of ship life as well as many photos of pinup girls. CONDITION: Album is intact and sturdy. Some photos exhibit fading. USS Arizona photo albums are seldom offered and this is a nice album with good content.
On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service launched a surprise, preemptive military strike on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, "a date which will live in infamy." The attack unfortunately resulted in destruction of numerous ships, as well as airfields and planes on the ground.
Probably the most famous loss during the attack was the U.S.S. Arizona, which sustained a bomb hit near turret II, which resulted in the forward magazine detonating, effectively destroying the ship. The bombs during the attack and subsequent explosion killed 1,177 of the 1,512 crewmen on board at the time, approximately half of the lives lost during the attack. The Arizona was not salvaged, and 15 years later a memorial was built over the sunken remains of the ship, which is now this bit of history got out of the water.
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