Object Details
Description
Description: This panel was part of Foam Truck 161 operated by the Fort Myer Fire and Emergency Services Division, Pentagon Station.
Context: This fire truck panel, covered with soot and pockmarked by flying debris, is mute testimony to the intensity of the plane crash. On the morning of September 11, Mark Skipper and fellow firefighter Alan Wallace pulled Foam Truck 161 out of the Pentagon firehouse and parked it next to the Pentagon helipad in preparation for President Bush’s planned arrival later in the day. Debris from the crash of the airliner into the Pentagon destroyed the back of the truck and threw Skipper to the ground. After calling for help on the truck radio and extinguishing the burning truck, the firefighters turned their attention to the heavily damaged Pentagon.
Location
Currently not on view
ID Number
2003.0060.01
accession number
2003.0060
catalog number
2003.0060.01
Object Name
Truck Panel
Physical Description
aluminum (overall material)
stainless steel (overall material)
Measurements
overall: 40 in x 29 in x 11 in; 101.6 cm x 73.69988 cm x 27.99994 cm
used
United States: Virginia, Pentagon
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Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
September 11
Data Source
National Museum of American History
associated subject
September 11 Terrorist Attacks
related event
September 11th Attacks
Attack on the Pentagon
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1193845