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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-71198

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941


Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier (reportedly Shokaku) to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941. Plane in the foreground is a "Zero" Fighter.
This is probably the launch of the second attack wave.
The original photograph was captured on Attu in 1943.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 129KB; 740 x 575 pixels

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4 October 2000