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Unknown [Bombardment of Pearl Harbor]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09552.07 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Type: Photograph Date: 07 December 1941 [circa 1941 - 1943] Pagination: 1 photograph print : b&w ; 26.4 x 18.6 cm. Order a Copy

Image printed on board of Japanese aerial view of attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese "zero" plane with can be seen in image. Japanese text in caption.
From the Naval History and Heritage Command's catalog: "Japanese Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Plane (Kate) flies high over Hickam Army Air Field during the attack. Pearl Harbor is in the background, with smoke rising from burning ships off Ford Island and at the Navy Yard. Photographed from a Japanese plane."

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