[Servicemen making camp outside Hickam Field]

Photograph of servicemen of the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, preparing their campsites in the jungle outside Hickam Field, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. Photo was taken following the Pearl Harbor attack.

Inscription: "(12-7-41-8:30A) - A.C. Photo by Sgt. Lee Embree."

Typed caption glued 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 shown here preparing to spend their first night in Hawaii, in a jungle of Algeroba trees, at the edge of Hickam Field. My cot is in the center foreground under the tarp [sentence crossed out]. It rained most of the night and around midnight there was very heavy anti-aircraft firing. We learned later that one of our own (US) planes had been shot down. Photo by---S/Sgt. Lee R. Embree, 38th Reconnaissance Squadron, USAAC."