U.S. Aircraft and Airflelds
Japanese Attacks on Pearl Harbor: Aircraft and Airfields
This section houses views of the damaged U.S. aircraft and airfields at Oahu. They were attacked to prevent counter-attacks by U.S. fighter planes, which could have seriously threatened the Japanese bombers and the Striking Force's aircraft carriers.
Image: 80-G-77618: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Aircraft fires following the attack at U.S. Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu. Official U.S. Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
