Pearl Harbor and U.S. Navy Operations Photographs, 1941

This folder contains photographs and a news clipping documenting U.S. Navy operations in the Pacific Theater during World War II, with an emphasis on the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. It appears to relate to the naval service of Photographer Mate First Class Vernon L. Thompson, whose portrait is included. Pearl Harbor images depict the attack and its aftermath, including the burning USS West Virginia (BB-48), the sinking USS Arizona (BB-39), and the damaged destroyers USS Downes (DD-375) and USS Cassin (DD-372) in dry dock alongside USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), along with a news clipping map of the harbor. Additional photographs show a battleship firing its guns, another taking on water, a Lockheed Ventura PV-1 aircraft, and five composite montages of naval aviation and shipboard operations, concluding with a portrait of Thompson in uniform bearing handwritten text on the verso.