Pearl Harbor Part 1

Description

This film depicts scenes near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in the spring of 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Workers are shown as they unloaded lumber from a flat car, women are seen as they stacked the lumber, tuna boats are shown nested near piers, a Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat aircraft is seen as it was hauled out of a hangar, a fire is shown as it burned in the hangar, and bomb trucks are seen as they towed loads of bombs on carts. A grave marker of Japanese Navy Lieutenant Fusata Iida, a kamikaze pilot killed in action on December 7, 1941, is shown next to an armed sentry, and American grave stones can be seen lined up near a beach.

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities