Port Angeles resident Lee R. Embree, a retired World War II Army Air Corps officer and photographer, will deliver a speech Saturday at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
Embree, 87, was asked to speak by officials from the Collings Foundation, who are visiting Seattle today through Monday with the “Wings of Freedom” tour.
The tour, which left Port Angeles on Wednesday, features the only fully restored and flying B-24 and one of only nine airworthy B-17s — two World War II-era bombers.
Embree was a photographer during the Pearl Harbor attack and landed in a B-17 inbound from the mainland on Dec. 7, 1941, while the attack was in progress.
He captured some of the first images of the battle for the United States, some of which were published in Life magazine.
He will speak for about 45 minutes beginning at 2 p.m. in the William M. Allen Theater at the museum, 9404 E Marginal Way South.
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