Fleet at Pearl Harbor - May, 1940

This photo of the fleet at Pearl Harbor was taken on the 3rd of May, 1940. The U.S. Navy's Historical Center provides information about the picture and the situation of the base at that time:

Aerial photograph from 4000 feet altitude, looking southwestward, with the U.S. Fleet at moorings. Taken on 3 May 1940, after the conclusion of Fleet Problem XXI. This was four days before word was received that the Fleet was to be retained in Hawaiian waters.

There are eight battleships and the carrier Yorktown (CV-5) tied up along the near side of Ford Island, in the center of the harbor. Two more battleships and many cruisers, destroyers and other Navy ships also present.

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