Fragment of the Pentagon facade
name: label: maker
content: Indiana Limestone Company
notes: label: Description
content: Description: This piece of scorched limestone facade was recovered from the wreckage of the Pentagon.
label: Description
content: Context: The Pentagon, completed in 1943 under the urgencies of World War II, was built to provide a central headquarters for an expanded U.S. military. On September 11, hijackers crashed an American Airlines Boeing 757 airliner into a portion of the Pentagon that had been reinforced recently as part of a building renovation and counterterrorism effort. The plane crashed just outside the building and slid nearly halfway through it. It totally destroyed a section of the first two floors of the five-story building. The heavily damaged upper floors initially held but, with an intense fire raging, soon collapsed.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: recovered
content: United States: Virginia, Pentagon
title: label: Title
content: Fragment of the Pentagon facade
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: 2002.0289.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0289
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0289.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stone fragment
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 48.3 cm x 119.4 cm x 40.6 cm; 19 in x 47 in x 16 in