| Summary: | Included is set of 8 photographs of images taken from the cockpits of the Japanese warplane, Zero, of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Captions are in order of photographs : “Planes and hangars burning at Wheeler Army Airfield, Oahu, soon after it was attacked in the morning of 7 December 1941, as seen from a Japanese Navy plane”; “Fuel oil pours out of battleships moored off Ford Island in Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack on Dec. 7. 1941”; “This image was captured by a Japanese naval aviator in the opening moments of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Torpedo tracks can be seen headed towards Battleship Row. Smoke rises in the distance from the burning aircraft and hangars at Hickam Field”; “Japanese plane flying over Pearl Harbor as black smoke rises from the area”; “Torpedo plane takes off from Shokaku to attack Pearl Harbor”; “Southeast view of the attack, from a Japanese plane”; "Panoramic view of Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack of Dec. 7, 1941. Note warship in background being hit by torpedo and spouting water”; "A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia and USS Oklahoma on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other battleships moored nearby are (from left): Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee (inboard of West Virginia), Oklahoma (torpedoed and listing) alongside Maryland, and California during the attack on Pearl Harbor."
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