Object Details
Description
Description: This Pentagon corridor map hung on the second floor of the innermost A ring, close to where the hijacked airplane hit the building.
Had the fuselage of American Airlines flight 77 penetrated further into the Pentagon, it would have hit the wall where this locator map was hanging.
Context: The distinctive shape of the Pentagon—the largest office building in the world—with its five sides and five concentric rings is plainly visible on this corridor locator map. Completed in 1943 under the urgencies of World War II, the Pentagon was built to provide a central headquarters for an expanded U.S. military. Maps such as this are familiar sights to Pentagon employees and visitors.
The airplane that terrorists hijacked and crashed into the building slid through the E, D, and C rings, and fire spread throughout much of the entire wedge.
Location
Currently not on view
ID Number
2002.0290.01
accession number
2002.0290
catalog number
2002.0290.01
Object Name
Map
Measurements
overall: 55 in x 58 1/16 in x 1 9/16 in; 139.7 cm x 147.40001 cm x 4.04012 cm
recovered
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_1193848