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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-32915

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941


Wrecked Army Air Corps B-17C (serial # 40-2074) bomber near Hangar # 5 at Hickam Air Field, following the end of the Japanese raid. This plane, piloted by Captain Raymond T. Swenson, was one of those that arrived during the raid after flying in from California. It was hit by a strafing attack after landing and burned in half.
Note Note bicycle parked by the plane. Pith helmet by the case in the left foreground indicates that the photographer was Tai Sing Loo.

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

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8 November 2000