    
Title: USS Avocet, December, 1941 Description: The American minesweeper USS Avocet (AVP-4), foreground, and the USS Nevada (BB-36), center right; the Nevada is down by the bow and burning forward and amidships at 0915 during the attack of the second wave of Japanese carrier-based planes over Pearl Harbor; the Nevada had grounded itself at Hospital Point at 0910 in order not to block the entrance channel to the harbor, but the strong current, as shown here, has swung the ship's stern, where the American flag defiantly flies at its fantail, into the channel; the Avocet, an 840-ton ship with a complement of seventy-five crew members, went to the assistance of the Nevada, mooring next to the battleship's port bow at 1240, and pushing her aground at No. 19 Buoy, then fought alongside the Nevada's crew for two hours to extinguish its fires; Date: December 7, 1941 Category: World War II Keywords: air attacks, airplanes, aviation, Imperial Japanese Navy, Japan, Japanese attack, Second World War, U.S. battleships, U.S. minesweepers, U.S. Navy, U.S. warships, World War II, WWII Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2250 x 1756 (3.95 MPixels) (1.28) Print Size: 19.0 x 14.9 cm; 7.5 x 5.9 inches File Size: 22.63 MB (23,731,716 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010564c Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
