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[Members of 38th Reconnaissance Squadron setting up camp]
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2007-08-08_image_055
Source
The Lee R. Embree Collection (2007-08-08), Box 2, Folder 1
Creator
Embree, Lee R., 1915-2008
Description
Photograph of members of the 38th Reconnaissance Squadron, U.S. Army Air Corps, setting up camp 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."
Creation Date
1941-12-07
Subject
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army. Air Corps. Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 38th
United States. Army. Air Corps
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Soldiers
Spears, Vance H.
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)
Hickam Air Force Base (Hawaii)
Place
Hawaii
United States
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photographic prints
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The Lee R. Embree Collection/The Museum of Flight
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Embree, Lee R., 1915-2008,
[Members of 38th Reconnaissance Squadron setting up camp]
, [2007-08-08_image_055]. Museum of Flight Digital Collections, accessed 21/01/2026, https://digitalcollections.museumofflight.org/nodes/view/9469