Lee Embree

Photographer, Visual Artist

1915 – 2008

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Who was Lee Embree?

Lee Embree was an American Army staff sergeant and photographer who took the first air-to-air photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Embree took the pictures of the attack from on board an Army Air Corps B-17 which he happened to be flying on from California to Hawaii on December 7, 1941 as the Japanese attacked the Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor.

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Born
Jul 9, 1915
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • Iowa
Died
Jan 24, 2008

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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