Pearl Harbor surprise: Photo of female firefighters wasn’t from Dec. 7
Bill Dedman on MSNBC’s Open Channel blog:
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.
Really awesome piece involving crowdsourcing, personal history, and politics.