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The Claim The e-mail said that these were taken by a sailor
on the USS Quapaw on a Box Brownie & stored in a foot locker for 68 years before being developed.
An obvious load of bollocks. The USS Quapaw did not exist at the time. The photos are from different vantage points And – having owned a box brownie as a kid – I
really doubt one could take pictures this good even if the sailor had a great eye for a photo.
This is a Kodak Box Brownie
The e-mail said “there’s nothing like a good camera”.
The Kodak Box Brownie was NEVER a good camera !!
But the rest of the text was OK Sunday, December 7th, 1941 Vice Admiral Nagumo – implemented plan of
Yamamoto. But not all fleet in port. USS Enterprise returning from Wake Island; USS
Lexington ferrying aircraft to Midway & the USS Saratoga & Colorado being repaired in the US. (Jap’ intelligence knew this just before attack)
Japanese had 6 carriers & 423 aircraft. 1st of a two-wave attack @ 0600 - the fleet in Pearl
Harbor & the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe & Ewa. 2nd wave @ 0715 hours. Same targets. Nagumo did
NOT launch 3rd wave against oil dumps etc
The CostU.S. Losses: US Army: 218 KIA, 364 WIA. US Navy: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.Marine Corp: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA. TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.
The Cost cont. included 8 battleships at Pearl Harbor. 2 – Arizona & Oklahoma - totally
destroyed. Pennsylvania light damage only 5 returned to service later 3 cruisers + 3 destroyers damaged but
returned. Approx 200 army & naval aircraft
destroyed & 159 more damaged