DescriptionUSS SHAW exploding Pearl Harbor Nara 80-G-16871 2 (cropped1to1).jpg	English: A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded. The stern of the USS Nevada can be seen in the foreground. (80-G-16871)
Date	7 December 1941
Source	US archives
Author	Unknown navy photographer
Other versions	This file has been extracted from another file : USS SHAW exploding Pearl Harbor Nara 80-G-16871 2.jpg png Another Angle

In the Winter 2004, Vol. 36, No. 4 of the National Archives magazine, Prologue, named this image one of its top ten requested images^[1]

The other 10 were:

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  Picture of Elvis and Nixon not one of the 10 but mentioned in the article
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  Shot of American forces during the en:Battle of Normandy
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  Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta in February 1945
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  en:USS Shaw exploding
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  Atomic Bomb named Fat Man is the codename of the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki
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  Lt. Victor Jorgenson's picture of the VJ Day Kiss at Times Square
• 
  We Can Do It! Poster
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  Result of Slave whipping
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  Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River
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  March on Washington, August 28, 1963, shows civil rights and union leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther

• Iwo Jima flag raising

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1. ↑ By Ellen Fried (Winter 2004
   date QS:P,+2004-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720553
   , Vol. 36, No. 4). From Pearl Harbor to Elvis: Images That Endure. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.