Angrepet på Pearl Harbor 7. desember 1941

Det var den 8. desember japansk tid. Bildet over er japansk eiendom og er tatt fra et fly fra det keiserlige flyvåpen.
Jeg har sett mange bilder fra Pearl Harbor, jeg har også vært der selv, da på nedlagte NAS Barbers Point med en norsk Orion. Besøket på minnesmerket over USS Arizona er ganske gripende. Men bildet over er veldig interessant. Du ser to fly i luften og flere fartøyer langs Battleship Row som er truffet og i ferd med å kantre. Eksplosjonen er et torpedotreff på USS Oklahoma. Helt til høyre på Ford Island ser du røyk fra flere flybåter som er i brann. Flyplassen ble bombet og de fleste hangarene kom i brann, altså etter at bildet ble tatt.
Wikipedia ber om at følgende tittel følger bildet:
This photographic image was published before December 31st 1956, or photographed before 1946 and not published for 10 years thereafter, under jurisdiction of the Government of Japan. Thus this photographic image is considered to be public domain according to article 23 of old copyright law of Japan and article 2 of supplemental provision of copyright law of Japan.
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GA Flight Honors Pearl Harbor Day

We don't normally associate general aviation aircraft with the events of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, 70 years ago this week, but a flight instructor and student out flying that day nearly collided with a Japanese Zero -- an event that was re-enacted Wednesday morning in Las Vegas. Cornelia Fort and her student were flying early on Dec. 6, 1941, above Honolulu in an Interstate Cadet, when the Zero sped straight at her, and she took over the controls to evade it. She immediately returned to the airport to land, and later wrote that "another plane machine-gunned the ground in front of me as I taxied back to the hangar." In commemoration of the day, the current owner of the Cadet, airshow pilot Kent Pietsch, flew a reenactment flight on Wednesday morning, with his brother Warren flying the world's only active Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter.

Kent Pietsch flew the Cadet from the front seat with Cornelia's nephew, Dudley Fort, in the back seat where his aunt would have been, Warren Pietsch told AVweb on Wednesday. "We flew once at 7:48 a.m. and again at 9:48, which was the exact time of the attack 70 years ago," Pietsch said. "We did it all -- the same near-miss, then the landing back at the field. The Zero 'strafed' the field, and we shot lots of video and pictures." Cornelia Fort later became the first American woman to die in the line of duty in the U.S. military, when the bomber she was ferrying over Texas collided with another airplane, in 1943. The January issue of Air & Space magazine, now online, features an in-depth story about Pietsch, the Cadet, and Fort.