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188 American aircraft sat at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. This is what really happened to every one of them — the fighters that burned before their pilots reached them, the bombers that arrived unarmed in the middle of the attack, the dive bombers shot at from both sides, and the one plane nobody has ever heard of that was actually there and still exists today.
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Sources:
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum (pearlharboraviationmuseum.org)
National Museum of the United States Air Force (nationalmuseum.af.mil)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (airandspace.si.edu)
Naval History and Heritage Command (history.navy.mil)
National Archives (archives.gov)
Pearl Harbor National Memorial / National Park Service (nps.gov)
National WWII Museum (nationalww2museum.org)
U.S. Naval Institute (usni.org)
World War II Database (ww2db.com)
Wikipedia: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Curtiss P-36 Hawk, George Welch, Ken Taylor, B-17 Flying Fortress, PBY Catalina, SBD Dauntless, F4F Wildcat, Sikorsky JRS-1, Battle of Midway, Philip Rasmussen, Gordon Sterling