Photos stored in an old brownie camera

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PHOTOS STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA
Fantastic photos taken 68 years ago --- sent from Ted Cowen in
Arizona. Some of you will have to go to a museum to see what
a Brownie camera looked like.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!

These photos are absolutely incredible....Read below the first
picture and at the end...

PHOTOS STORED IN AN OLD BROWNIE CAMERA
Thought you might find these photos very interesting;
what quality from 1941.
Pearl Harbor photos found in an old Brownie stored in
a foot locker. and just recently taken to be developed.
THESE PHOTOS ARE FROM A SAILOR WHO WAS ON THE
USS QUAPAW ATF-11O.

PEARL HARBOR
December 7th, 1941

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Pearl Harbor

On Sunday, December 7th, 1941 the Japanese launched
a surprise attack against the U.S. Forces stationed at
Pearl Harbor , Hawaii By planning his attack on a Sunday,
the Japanese commander Admiral Nagumo, hoped to catch
the entire fleet in port. As luck would have it, the Aircraft
Carriers and one of the Battleships were not in port.
(The USS Enterprise was returning from Wake Island ,
where it had just delivered some aircraft. The USS
Lexington was ferrying aircraft to Midway, and the
USS Saratoga and USS Colorado were undergoing repairs
in the United States .)

In spite of the latest intelligence reports about the missing
aircraft carriers (his most important targets), Admiral
Nagumo decided to continue the attack with his force of
six carriers and 423 aircraft. At a range of 230 miles north
of Oahu, he launched the first wave of a two-wave attack.
Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183
fighters and torpedo bombers which st ruck at the fleet in
Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and
Ewa. The second strike, launched at 0715 hours, consisted
of 167 aircraft, which again struck at the same targets.


At 075 3 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima
B5N2 'Kate' torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 'Val' dive
bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck
airfields and Pearl Harbor Within the next hour, the second
wave arrived and continued the attack.
When it was over, the U.S. Losses were:

Casualties
US Army: 218 KIA, 364 WIA.
US Navy: 2,008 KIA, 710 WIA.
US MarineCorp: 109 KIA, 69 WIA.
Civilians: 68 KIA, 35 WIA.

TOTAL: 2,403 KIA, 1,178 WIA.
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Battleships
USS Arizona (BB-39) - total loss when a bomb hit her magazine.
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) - Total loss when she capsized and sunk in the harbor.
USS California (BB-4 4) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS West Virginia (BB-48) - Sunk at her berth. Later raised and repaired.
USS Nevada - (BB-36) Beached to prevent sinking. Later repaired.
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - Light damage.
USS Maryland (BB-46) - Light damage.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) Light damage.
USS Utah (AG-16) - (former battleship used as a target) - Sunk.
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Cruisers
USS New Orleans (CA-32) - Light Damage..
USS San Francisco (CA-38) - Light Damage.
USS Detroit (CL-8) - Light Damage.
USS Raleigh (CL-7) - Heavily damaged but repaired.
USS Helena (CL-50) - Light Damage.
USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Light Damage..
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Destroyers
USS Downes (DD-375) - Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Cassin - (DD -3 7 2) Destroyed. Parts salvaged.
USS Shaw (DD-373) - Very heavy damage.
USS Helm (DD-388) - Light Damage.
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Minelayer
USS Ogala (CM-4) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Seaplane Tender
USS Curtiss (AV-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Repair Ship
USS Vestal (AR-4) - Severely damaged but later repaired.
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Harbor Tug
USS Sotoyomo (YT-9) - Sunk but later raised and repaired.
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Aircraft
188 Aircraft destroyed (92 USN and 92 U.S. Army Air Corps.)

 

[Stealph Viper]

Sorry, but for some reason i can't view the Photo's, all i see on the thread is a small box with a X in it and "Click the Image to open in full size". When i click on it i just get a Black Screen where the image should be.
Can any one advise me on how i can view these photo's ???

 

[Shine]

Anyone else got this problem?

SV, try opening fm in another browser than the one you use. If not pm me your email and I'll send the email I got of this from my step father.

 

[Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)]

I get the same as SV.

How did you 'insert' the photos?

That's what usually happens if you try to copy and paste images into a thread.

 

[Shine]

That's what I had to do. there are 17 pictures. I had to do one at a time. It all looked good when I previewed the thread.

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Hows this?....

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[Stealph Viper]

Wow, that is 100% perfect.

Some amazing Photo's, thanks for sharing them with us.

 

[Morespiders]

Bloody amazing, to think the pics lay there all that time in the camera.
Brave man to stand there taking them as well, i would have been lay down on the floor holding my hat on

 

[Cakey]

the quality is alot better than I thought they would be
superb

 

[Ray Roberts]

I agree with cakey, superb images. I was always told that the undeveloped (latent) image deteriorated over time, these seem fine though.

 

[slime monster]

A graphic reminder of that horrific incident ..super quality photos considering their history.

 

[Rodney Wrestt]

A great set of pictures.

 

[Stealph Viper]

What i liked about them, even though they are obviously not in colour, it feels as if they are.
Does that sound stupid?
Ok, i'll shut up now

 

[Chris Frankish 2]

Amazing photographs!

They truly bring home the events of that day, a precious historical find.