[38th Reconnaissance Squadron setting up camp]

Photograph of members of the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, setting up camp outside Hickam Field after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. Vance H. Spears is on the right.

Typed caption taped to verso: "#7 -- Hickam Field, Hawaii. December 7, 1941. Late afternoon on this date, some of the air crew members from the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron are preparing to spend their first night in Hawaii in a 'jungle' area at the edge of Hickam Field. Right foreground is Sgt. Vance Spears, assistant crew chief of B-17E crew #2. My cot is center foreground under the tarp. It rained most of the night and around mid-night there was heavy anti-aircraft firing. Photo by S/Sgt. Lee R. Embree, 38th Reconnaissance Squadron, USAAC."