West Loch Disaster, 21 May 1944

While at the NARA, College Park, in September, I unexpectedly found six
U.S. Army Signal Corps photos of the disaster at West Loch, Pearl Harbor,
May 1944. I scanned the photos at 800 dpi.

West Loch Disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

NAVY'S HUSHED-UP TRAGEDY AT WEST LOCH | Sea Classics | Find Articles at BNET

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Three of the images are now posted on Navsource:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160039.htm

Tank Landing Ship LST

SC 427952 features the burned-out hulk of LST 39. The caption
states the photo was taken "prior to a terrific explosion which
ripped the boat apart."


Dave

 

If you go to Google Earth you can still see some of the wreckage on the Ford Island side of the Loch

 

Those first three photos are really exceptional. Could you post the remaining three also?