Lee Embree, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lee Embree

American photographer

Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1915

Place of Birth: Iowa, United States

Date of Death: 24-Jan-2008

Profession: photographer, military officer, war photographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Lee Embree (July 9, 1915 – January 24, 2008) was an American Army staff sergeant and photographer who took the first American air-to-air photographs of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Embree took the pictures of the attack from on board an Army Air Corps B-17 which he happened to be flying on from California to Hawaii on December 7, 1941 as the Japanese attacked the Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor.