German postcard by Edgar Medien AG. Photo: Touchstone Pictures / Bueno Vista International. Kate Beckinsale in Pearl Harbor (Michael Bay, 2001).
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---world war ii pacific theater pearl harbor attack car riddled by shrapnel from bomb dropped at pearl harbor eight miles away.---
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Today is the 71st anniversary of Pearl Harbor. President Obama writes: “We faced down impossible odds — and out of the ashes of conflict, America rose more prepared than ever to meet the challenges of the day.”
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It’s never too late to solve a mystery, or to set the record straight. In the 70 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, a dramatic photo of female firefighters has been published many times in magazines, history books and online as a depiction of action on Dec. 7, 1941. We published it this past week on msnbc.com. Now, with the help of our readers, we’ve located one of the women, who says the photo was definitely not taken on that day. She’s the second from the right in the iconic photo, Katherine Lowe, still living in Hawaii at age 96, where she has great-great-grandchildren and goes bowling twice a week. She can take us back to a time and place that few remember…
