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Photograph Curator Secretary James V. Forrestal Makes Last Inspection of Bomb Disposal School. A Nazi glider bomb is examined by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, (right), during his last inspection of the Washington, D.C. Navy Bomb Disposal School on September 11, 1945. The school is to be decommissioned on September 30th. Accompanying the Secretary are Vice Admiral Charles M Coske, Jr., USN, (third left), Chief of Staff to Fleet Admiral King, and Rear Admiral George F. Hussey, Jr, USN, (fourth left), Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. This school is located at American University. Photograph released September 12, 1945.
 
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Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941. Wartime painting in oils on silk, by an unidentified Japanese artist, depicting the four officers and five crewmen who were lost with the five Japanese midget submarines that participated in the attack. The single survivor of that effort is omitted from the painting, which features a view of the attack on Ford Island in its center. Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C
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The Japanese Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor". Charcoal and chalk by Commander Griffith Bailey Coale, USNR, Official U.S. Navy Combat Artist, 1944. This artwork "... shows the destruction wrought on ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet attacked in their berths by scores of enemy torpedo planes, horizontal and dive bombers on December 7, 1941. At the extreme left is the stern of the cruiser Helena, while the battleship Nevada steams past and three geysers, caused by near bomb misses, surround her. In the immediate foreground is the capsizing minelayer Oglala. The battleship to the rear of the Oglala is the California, which has already settled. At the right, the hull of the capzized Oklahoma can be seen in front of the Maryland; the West Virginia in front of the Tennessee; and the Arizona settling astern of the Vestal ..., seen at the extreme right. The artist put this whole scene together for the first time in the early summer of 1944, from 1010 Dock, in Pearl Harbor, where he was ordered for this duty. Coale worked under the guidance of Admiral William R. Furlong, Commandant of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, who stepped from his Flagship, the Oglala, as she capsized." (quoted from the original Combat Art description). Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Center, Washington, D.C. same site
 

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