Underway off Pearl Harbor on 30 April 1943, en route to the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, for reconstruction. The Pearl Harbor Navy Yard had just finished temporary repair of the damage she had received in the Japanese attack of 7 December 1941. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Anchored in Sagami Wan, Japan, outside of Tokyo Bay, circa late August 1945.
Mount Fuji is in the background.
Courtesy of Robert O. Baumrucker, 1978. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photograph Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Note extensive distortion of West Virginia 's lower midships superstructure, caused by torpedoes that exploded below that location.