Lee Embree
Lee Embree (July 9, 1915 – January 24, 2008) was an
Personal life
Lee Embree was born and raised in Iowa.[1] He married his first wife, Elizabeth Gene "Betty" Lain on February 22, 1941.[1] Betty died in 1998, and he married his second wife, Violet "Vi" Timm McRoberts, in 2001.[1]
Pearl Harbor photographs
Embree first enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1936.[1] By 1941, the year of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, Embree had become a staff sergeant.[1]
Embree snapped a number of pictures of the attack, but eventually stopped. In a 2001 interview, he explained "Many people have asked me why I didn't take more photos from the air... I can only answer that I was so flabbergasted at what I saw that I forgot about the camera that was in my hand."[1]
Later life
Embree enlisted in the
Embree was
Embree's photographs, as well as his
Death
Lee Embree died at his home in Port Angeles on January 24, 2008, of a kidney infection at the age of 92.[1][2] He was buried at Mount Angeles Memorial Park.[1] He was survived by his second wife, and by two children, three grandchildren, three stepchildren and five step-grandchildren.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Casey, Jim (2008-01-24). "Lee Embree, first photographer to fly into 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, dies in Port Angeles". Peninsula Daily News. Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ^ Honolulu Advertiser. Associated Press. 2008-01-27. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
External links
- Lee Embree Collection at The Museum of Flight Digital Collections
