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From: JSaffell
To: bigmamax713x
Sent: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 6:26 pm
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Photos STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA/Must See!!
From: missiw1970@yahoo.com
To: jsaffell@aol.com
Sent: 10/26/2009 3:32:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Fw: Photos STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA/Must See!!
this is the e-mail I was telling you about, the camera that had pictures from Pearl Harbor.
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Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 1:06:06 PM
Subject: FW: Photos STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA/Must See!!
> Isn't is amazing how a film could last so long in a camera without
> disintegrating?
>
> Fantastic photos taken 68 years ago. Some of you will have to go to a
> museum to see what a Brownie camera looked like?
>
> Here is a simple picture of what we are talking about. . .
>
> These photos are absolutely incredible....Read below the first picture and
> at the end...
>
> Thought you might find these photos very interesting; what quality from
> 1941.
>
> Pearl Harbor photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker. And
> just recently
>
> Taken to be developed.
>
> THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO WAS ON THE USS QUAPAW ATF-110
>
>
> I THINK THEY'RE SPECTACULAR!
>
> PEARL HARBOR
>
> December 7th, 1941
>
> Pearl Harbor
>
> On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack
> against the U.S. Forces stationed at Pearl Harbor , Hawaii By planning
> this attack on a Sunday, the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to
> catch the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft
> Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port. (The USS Enterprise
> was returning from Wake Island , where it had just delivered some
> aircraft. The USS Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the USS
> Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs in the United States)
>
> In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing aircraft
> carriers (his most important targets), Admiral Nagumo decided to continue
> the attack with his force of six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of
> 230 miles north of Oahu , he launched the first wave of a two-wave
> attack. Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters
> and torpedo bombers which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the
> airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715
> hours, consisted of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.
>
> At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 'Kate' torpedo
> bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 'Val' dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43
> Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor Within the next hour, the second
> wave arrived and continued the attack.
>
> When it was over, the U.S. Losses were:
>
> Casualties
>
> US Army: 218 KIA, 364 WIA.
>
> US Navy: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.
>
> US MarineCorp: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.
> Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA.
> TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Battleships
> USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.
>
> USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the
> harbor.
>
> USS California (BB-4 4) - Sunk at her berth.
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