Caption:
Pearl Harbor Burns After Surprise Attack -- Pearl Harbor, U.S. military and naval stronghold in the Pacific, lies under an ominous pall of black smoke December 7 shortly after Japanese planes bombed the Harbor and surrounding military objectives while Japan's "Peace Negotiators" still talked of peace to Secretary Hull in Washington and the United States Ambassador to Japan was being told in Tokyo that Nipon desired peace. The photo was made from Mt. Tantalus, behind Honolulu. December 16, 1941.