Zero Fighter - Leaving Aircraft Carrier for Pearl Harbor

The U.S. Navy's Historical Center provides background information on this captured Japanese photograph:

Japanese naval aircraft prepare to take off from an aircraft carrier (reportedly Shokaku) to attack Pearl Harbor during the morning of 7 December 1941. Plane in the foreground is a "Zero" Fighter.

This is probably the launch of the second attack wave.  The original photograph was captured on Attu in 1943.

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Credits

U.S. Navy Photo #: 80-G-71198.

Information on the photo from the U.S. Navy's Historical Center.

Photo, U.S. National Archives.