Pearl Harbor Photos

The pictures are real, but the description isn't.  Snopes gives some background, though it does appear some emailer has edited the original group of images.

Ditto, AJ.. I didn't "Snopes it" but knew some of those pictures well, having seen them in books I've owned since the 60s...

Specifically:

And,

That one of the USS Shaw exploding was in too many books to count...

I've seen at least 4 of those in books. The others I haven't seen before.

When I was a child I had a four volume set of WW2 photos taken during the whole war. When I turned ten, my mother left my step father and we were living with my Grandmother. She destryed my books because she did'nt like my looking at the photos, some of which were quite graphic even in black & white. If I remember the dry dock caption correctly, the destroyers were the Cassin and Downs with the Pennsylvania in the back ground. As a sister ship to the Arizona the Pennsylvania should have been preserved as a museum, but then being a fairly short sighted service the navy used her for the Bikini H bomb testing. Then when she did'nt sink they towed her to the Aleutions and scuttled her there.

I play waste my time with  World of Tanks and saw the same post there a while back. I pointed out it was faked origin and got so much flak for "questioning the braveness of the american sailor taking these photographs" is was scary.

Shows the difference in what a computer chair game playing historian knows a vs people that research for their hobby IMO.

Andrew

All of those same pictures were in the books my Grandmother destroyed.

Konigwolf13

I play waste my time with  World of Tanks and saw the same post there a while back. I pointed out it was faked origin and got so much flak for "questioning the braveness of the american sailor taking these photographs" is was scary.

Shows the difference in what a computer chair game playing historian knows a vs people that research for their hobby IMO.

 

Andrew

I thought about downloading that game and seeing what it was  about, but I went to the forums first just to see what kinda "crowd" it had... After reading about fifty posts, I gave up in disgust and said Phooey to WoT and didn't download it...

I'll stick with Panzer Elite...

We now return you the Original Topic..

The USS Quapaw (AT-110) wasn't laid down until 28-DEC-1942.  She was launched in 1943.    She was redesignated as a Fleet Tug (ATF) in 1944.   The Quapaw wasn't anywhere near Pearl Harbor during the attack,  although the owner of the camera may have been.    The private posession of a camera onboard a ship during WWII was considered a security threat and it would have been subject to confiscation if found during an inspection of one's locker

I think just about every one of those photos can be found here on the US Navy official historical site thread.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/pearlhbr.htm

Film exposed in 1941 and left stored in a camera could not be developed 70 years later, I'm quite sure.  The images would be long gone.

Welcome to the forum...

That's an old internet hoax. Those pictures have been around in books for at least 40 years, at least the four most familiar ones. On Navsource too and other net resources.

Even if they were extremely rare photos (which it appears they're not) you can tell they're from at least 4 different cameras. Even aged photos, if they all came out of the same camera would either all be sepia or B&W. This process is added in during the development. But a B&W film wont process as sepia and a sepia film wont process as B&W.

Either way, these photos arent from the same camera. (i dunno if it mentions this in the links you guys posted. but im too lazy to check)