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Burying those lost

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A Marine rifle squad fires a volley over the bodies of fifteen officers and men killed at Naval Air Station Kanoehe Bay during the Pearl Harbor raid. These burial ceremonies took place on December 8th 1941, the day after the attack.

Note sandbagged emplacement atop the small hill in the right middle distance.

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U.S. National Archives