Turns out a sailor from the USS Quapaw, which was stationed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, shot several photos from an old Brownie camera and never had the film developed.
The camera sat in a foot locker – for 68 years. Finally, in 2009, the sailor’s family found the camera and took the film to get developed.
This is what came out of the Fotomat…
This post was written by Oscar on Monday, January 31, 2011, 23:13. Oscar has written 721 posts on this blog.
“We simply don’t mind that Google and Amazon rake in billions, but we despise Exxon and Archer Daniels Midland for doing the same. It is not that we need social networking and Internet searches more than food and fuel, but rather that we have the impression that cool zillionaires in flipflops are good while uncool ones in wingtips are quite bad.”
http://thehayride.com/2011/01/very-cool-stuff-lost-pearl-harbor-pics/#more-11051
oops
http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/pearlharbor.asp
The Hayride New Post – Very Cool Stuff – Lost Pearl Harbor Pics. Read it now at http://bit.ly/ej3Wp4
Some of these photos were never “lost” and have been available for YEARS!
This is a hoax according to “Truth or Fiction” and “Snopes”.