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The formation of ships in Battleship Row.
'Battleship Row' was the grouping of eight battleships in port at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese launched the Attack on Pearl Harbor. These ships bore the brunt of the Japanese assault. They were moored next to Ford Island when the attack commenced. The ships were:
★ USS ''Arizona'' - Magazine explosion, sunk with few survivors
★ USS ''California'' - Sunk
★ USS ''Maryland'' - Damaged
★ USS ''Nevada'' - Damaged and run aground
★ USS ''Oklahoma'' - Capsized and sunk
★ USS ''Pennsylvania'' - Damaged. The ''Pennsylvania'' was in dry dock during the attack, making efforts to torpedo her extremely difficult.
★ USS ''Tennessee'' - Damaged
★ USS ''West Virginia'' - Sunk
Japanese planes attacking Battleship Row, as seen from the southwest. Ford Island is in the center of the picture, and Battleship row is behind the island
Four of the ships were sunk; of the other four, only ''Nevada'' had serious damage. Following the attack, operations immediately commenced to refloat and repair them. By the end of the war, six of them would see service again (all except the ''Arizona'' and ''Oklahoma''). No battleship that was in the attack on Pearl Harbor is afloat today. The last ship to be either sunk or scrapped was the USS ''California'' (BB-44) in 1959.
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