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
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on July 23, 2013
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