Photo: U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation

HISTORY

Photo: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Photo: Photo: National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Burned U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-17C Flying Fortress (s/n 40-2074) rests near Hangar 5, Hickam Field, Oahu. It was flown to Hickam by Captain Raymond T. Swenson from

California and arrived when the attack was under way. On its final approach, the aircraft’s

magnezium flare box was hit by Japanese strafing and ignited. The burning plane separated upon landing. The crew survived the crash, but a passenger was killed by strafing when

running from the burning wreck.

A heavily damaged U.S. Army Air Forces Curtiss P-40 from the 44th Pursuit Squadron at Bellows Field.

Photo: U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation

A U.S. plane shot down by a Zero (visible overhead) burns in the woods near Ewa, Oahu, Hawaii, during

the Pearl Harbor attack, on 7 December 1941. The crashed plane is probably a USS Enterprise (CV-6)

Douglas SBD Dauntless flown by Ensign John Vogt or Lieutenant Clarence Dickinson. A Japanese

plane crashed in the same location, with its wreckage intermingled with that of the U.S. Navy aircraft.

The photo was taken by Staff Sergeant Lee Embree from a U.S. Army 38th Reconnaissance Squadron

B-17E that arrived over Oahu during the Japanese attack.

Photo: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat fighters, of Fighting Squadron Three (VF-3) On board USS

Saratoga (CV-3) in early October 1941. Plane on the elevator is aircraft (Bureau # 3982)

flown by Ensign Gayle Hermann to Pearl Harbor in the evening of December 7. Marking

was changed 3-F-15 at that time. His engine was heavily damaged by friendly fire. He

had to make dead-stick landing and was under fire even during taxiing. Plane was

repaired and lost with VF-2 at Coral Sea.

Sailors stand amid wrecked planes at the Ford Island seaplane base,

watching as destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373) explodes in the center

background. Battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) is also visible in the middle

background, with her bow headed toward the left.

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