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2007-09-09 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-09 11:45|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 As commenters at the link note, the detail and wide angle of some shots almost certainly precludes them having been taken with a Kodak Brownie. Only my best Nikon lenses combined with low ASA high-grain film render that sort of resolution.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-09 11:55|| 2007-09-09 11:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I've seen just about all of these before...

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-09 12:07|| 2007-09-09 12:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I've seen some of them before, too, in a Life Magazine History of WWII. And I am kind of half-remembering reading about a movie documentary crew coming to Pearl within a couple of months, to do some "why we fight" type movies, and recreating some of the scenes, and that some of their stills are mixed up with authentic photos taken on December 7th, 1941. Any one else remember this?

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-09-09 12:20|| www.celiahayes.com]">[www.celiahayes.com] 2007-09-09 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 According to the Urban Legends Reference Page (snopes.com):

For a "sailor" to have snapped pictures from all the perspectives shown above, he would had to have been in the harbor aboard his ship, on the ground at Hickam army airfield, and aloft in an airplane -- all while the attack was in progress. Moreover, the ship on which this wide-rangng sailor supposedly served, the first USS Quapaw, wasn't even built until well after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Most (if not all) of these images are readily identifiable as archival photos that have been available since the early 1940s and have appeared in countless articles and books about the Pearl Harbor attack.

Posted by Mike 2007-09-09 13:17|| 2007-09-09 13:17|| Front Page Top

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