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[View from a Japanese plane of the fire at Wheeler airfield at Pearl Harbor]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09552.04 Author/Creator: Place Written: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Type: Photograph Date: 07 December 1941 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 26.4 cm, Width: 18.6 cm Order a Copy

Mounted photograph of Japanese aerial view of attack on Pearl Harbor with Japanese text on verso.
From Naval History and Heritage Command's catalog: "Planes and hangars burning at Wheeler Army Air Field, Oahu, soon after it was attacked in the morning of 7 December 1941, as seen from a Japanese Navy plane."

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