Seen shortly after the attack, the destroyers USS Downes and USS Cassin lie wrecked in front of the USS Pennsylvania in Pearl Harbor’s Drydock One. Smoke rises from the USS Arizona in the distance. Gift of Robert M. Heim, 2002.300.005 

With the USS Helena and the capsized USS Oglala in the foreground, smoke billows from multiple warships on December 7, 1941. Gift of Julian Dean, 2010.523.029 

Among the destruction of the attack, sailors at Ford Island Naval Air Station watch as the USS Shaw explodes in the distance. Courtesy of the US Naval History and Heritage Command 

Flying into Hickam Air Field on December 7, this B-17 was hit by a strafing attack and burned in half on the runway. Courtesy of the US Naval History and Heritage Command 

After an attack by Japanese aircraft, the USS Oglala lies capsized in Pearl Harbor. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration 

The USS Shaw explodes during the attack on December 7, 1941. Courtesy of the Library of Congress 

The USS Arizona burns after the Pearl Harbor attack. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration 

Following the Pearl Harbor attack, the Office of War Information produced many posters calling on the American public to remember and to avenge those killed. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration 

In spring 1942, sailors honor men killed during the Japanese attack on Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, by laying leis on their graves in Hawaiian tradition. Courtesy of the US Naval History and Heritage Command