Keywords: USS Nevada nose down the channel at Hospital point.jpg ~9 02AM December 7 1941 USS Nevada BB-36 headed down channel after being intensely attacked by Japanese dive bombers Photographed from Ford Island with USS Avocet AVP-4 in the foreground and the dredge line in the middle distance Smoke is pouring from Nevada's forecastle area where 2 250 bombs have struck Minutes afterwards she is given orders to beach herself opposite floating Drydock YFD-2 holding USS Shaw in order that the channel not be blocked Minutes later the current will have shifted Nevada 180 degrees so that she would face up Channel Removed caption read Photo NH 97396 USS Nevada during Pearl Harbor attack 7 December 1941 Tour USS Nevada- Pearl Harbor attack <br> source of image and caption text www history navy mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/pearlhbr/ph-nv htm rights notice on that page Official U S Navy Photograph now in the collections of the National Archives National Historical center NH 97396 PD-USN USS Nevada BB-36 Pearl Harbor attack |