Pentagon locator map
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This Pentagon corridor map hung on the second floor of the innermost A ring, close to where the hijacked airplane hit the building.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: recovered
content: United States: Virginia, Pentagon
title: label: Title
content: Pentagon locator map
topic: label: associated subject
content: September 11 Terrorist Attacks
label: related event
content: September 11th Attacks
label: related event
content: Attack on the Pentagon
setName: label: See more items in
content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
label: See more items in
content: September 11
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0290.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0290
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0290.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Map
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 55 in x 58 1/16 in x 1 9/16 in; 139.7 cm x 147.40001 cm x 4.04012 cm