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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-182259

Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941

Japanese Navy Type 99 Carrier Bombers ("Val") prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier during the morning of 7 December 1941.
Ship in the background is the carrier Soryu.

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

Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

Note: This image is frequently reproduced with the planes facing toward the right. The orientation shown here, with the planes facing toward the left, is correct.

 

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4 October 2000