War Damage Reports 12th Naval District
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"War Damage Reports" are as the name implies, the official naval report of damages sustained to the vessel. These reports have photographs that show the damage to the vessel and some temporary repairs. The photographs are reproduced on standard stock paper; the quality of the reproduction is not good by any stretch of the imagination. Where POSSIBLE the original photographs will be inserted as an appendix to the report. Within each report there are extended length "plates". These plates are a visual representation and location of the damag to the vessel, and form an integral part of the report that cannot be excluded from it. The plates are oversized, meaning, they exceed the scannable area of a NARA approved flatbed scanner, 12" X 17" or tabloid size, is the largest flatbed allowed at this time. The only means of scanning the plates is to have the scan done by NARA. The cost is $3.50 per foot of scan, this cost is subject to change by NARA at any time. The average length of a 'plate' is approximately three (3) feet.
Where you see 'War Damage Report No. xx' that is the offical naval report.
Where you see the names of two vessels in the VESSELS column the Navy has combined two reports into a single report.
Some of the offical Naval War Damage Reports concerning Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 are not numbered.
You may see that some vessels have more than one report, this can be the result of multiple copies of reports with different attachments, supplementary reports by different commands, or simply the vessel was damaged in two different actions.
If you have any INQUIRES
DO TO RISING COSTS PLEASE REQUEST AN ESTIMATE PRIOR TO PLACING AN ORDER
In the subject line of the email use War Damage Report For The Pacific AreaIn the body of the email use the Line Number followed by the Vessel Name and Hull number as an identifer.
Example - LINE NUMBER 1,
| Line Number | VESSEL NAME |
| 1 | USS UHLMANN DD687 War Damage Report 24 April 1944 Collision with USS BENHAM DD796 typed by Pearl Harbor Forty-four (44) Photographs |
| 2 | USS UHLMANN DD687 War Damage Report 24 April 1944 Collision with USS BENHAM DD796 typed by Pearl Harbor Forty-seven (47) Photographs |
| 3 | USS VESTAL AR4 War Damage Report No. 12 Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941 Three (3) plates |
| 4 | USS VINCENNES CA44 War Damage Report No. 29 Savo Island 9 August 1942 Five (5) plates |
| 5 | USS BOULDER VICTORY AK227 War Damage Report Kossel Passage, Paplau Islands 20 December 1944 Typed by Commander Naval Base, Navy 3025 Three (3) Photographs One (1) drawing |
| 6 | USS BOULDER VICTORY AK227 War Damage Report Kossel Passage, Paplau Islands 20 December 1944 Typed by Mare Island Twenty-four (24) Photographs Four (4) plates |
| 7 | USS BOULDER VICTORY AK227 War damage report - errors in. Typed by Commanding Officer F. E. Church No photographs no plates |
| 8 | USS WADLEIGH DD689 War Damage Report Kossol Passage, Palau Islands 16 September 1944 typed by Mare Island Fifty-nine (59) Photographs One (1) plate |
| 9 | USS WAKEFIELD War Damage Report No. 20 Singapore 30 January 1942 Three (3) plates |
| 10 | USS WASP CV7 War Damage Report No 39 South Pacific 15 September 1942 Four (4) plates |
| 11 | USS WESSON DE184 War Damage Report Okinawa 7 April 1945 Typed by Mare Island Thirty-one (31) Photographs One (1) plate |
| 12 | USS YORKTOWN CV5 War Damage Report No. 23 Coral Sea 8 May 1942 Four (4) plates |
| 13 | USS YORKTOWN CV5 War Damage Report No 25 Midway 6 June 1942 Five (5) plates |
| 14 | USS ZEILIN APA3 War Damage Report East China Sea, Luzon, Philippine Islands 13 January 1945 typed by Mare Island Thirty-one (31) Photographs Two (2) plates |