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All Rights Reserved.The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks 11 September 2001 Introduction Attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 Attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 9/11 Terrorist Attacks (General) Selected Imagery A bouquet lies on a bench at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, 11 September 2019. |
Department of Defense photo by Lisa Ferdinando. |
On the morning of 11 September 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamist extreme group al Qaeda hijacked four commercial aircraft and crashed two of them into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. |
A third plane crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. |
After learning about the other attacks, passengers on the fourth hijacked plane, Flight 93, fought back, and the plane was crashed into an empty field in western Pennsylvania about 20 minutes by air from Washington, D.C. The Twin Towers ultimately collapsed, due to the damage from the impacts and subsequent fires. |
Nearly 3,000 people were killed from 93 different countries. |
Most of the fatalities were from the attacks on the World Trade Center. |
The Pentagon lost 184 civilians and servicemembers and 40 people were killed on Flight 93. |
It was the worst attack on American soil since the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. |
After the Taliban refused to turn over the mastermind of the attacks, Osama Bin Laden, Operation Enduring Freedom officially began 7 October 2001 with American and British bombing strikes against al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan. |
Initially, the Taliban was removed from power and al Qaeda was seriously crippled, but allied forces continually dealt with a stubborn Taliban insurgency, infrastructure rebuilding, and corruption among the Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, and Afghan Border Police. |
Bin Laden would go into hiding for nearly 10 years. |
On 2 May 2011, U.S. Navy SEALs launched a nighttime raid on Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing the al Qaeda leader. |
Operation Enduring Freedom officially ended 28 December 2014, although coalition forces remained on the ground to assist with training Afghan security forces. |
American troops departed Afghanistan in August 2021. |
Oral Histories - Navy Archives Navy Combat Documentation Detachment 206 Pentagon 9/11 Oral Histories In the immediate aftermath of the attacks on 11 September, the Department of Defense and all of the branches of the Armed Forces began efforts to document the attacks. |
The Naval Historical Center (the predecessor of NHHC) activated its reserve unit, Navy Combat Documentation Detachment 206 (DET 206) to assist in the documentation efforts. |
Over the next ten months, DET 206 reservists and NHC Historians interviewed hundreds of individuals who were in the Pentagon on the day of the attack or were directly involved in the Navy’s response and the work that followed. |
The Navy Archives has received permission to release a portion of the oral histories to the public for the first time since they were recorded. |
The oral histories that have been authorized for release can be found at the link above. |
Archives Collections - Navy Archives Blogs/Articles Artifact Collection Photo Gallery Graphics Suggested Reading Oral Histories - Navy Archives Navy Combat Documentation Detachment 206: Documenting the Experiences of the Navy in New York City After 9/11 The oral histories document the experiences of Navy personnel in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode Island on the day of the attacks and in the days and weeks following. |
Navy Combat Documentation Detachment 206 Pentagon 9/11 Oral History: CDR Terrence Dwyer Commander Dwyer was the head of medical services on the USNS Comfort in September 2001. |
His oral history documents the service of USNS Comfort in New York City following the attacks. |
Archives Collection - Navy Archives Photo Gallery Blogs/Articles Suggested Reading Oral Histories - Navy Archives Navy Combat Documentation Detachment 206: Documenting Operation Enduring Freedom - Experiences at CINCUSNAVEUR London on 11 September 2001 and in the Aftermath The oral histories focus on the experiences of Naval Staff on duty in London at Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR) on 9/11, as well their work in the aftermath and their observations on foreign reactions to the attacks. |
Navy Combat Documentation Detachment 206: Documenting Operation Enduring Freedom - CINCLANTFLT & COMSECONDFLT Norfolk DET 206 reservists deployed to Norfolk in December 2001 to document CINCLANTFLT and SECONDFLT operations leading up to September 11, the immediate response following the attacks; and operations in the days and weeks after the attacks. |
The oral histories in this collection offer overlapping and complementary perspectives. |
Archives Collection - Navy Archives Artifact Collection Artifact Conservation Suggested Reading A clock, frozen at the time of impact, sat on a desk inside the Pentagon following the terrorist attack on 11 September 2001. |
Photo by Air Force Staff Sgt. |
Larry A. |
Simmons. |
Devastation at the World Trade Center site in New York City in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack. |
National Archives identifier, 5609777. |
President George W. |
Bush greeted rescue workers, firefighters, and military personnel, 12 September 2001, while he surveyed damage caused by the previous day’s terrorist attacks on the Pentagon. |
Photo by Eric Draper. |
Courtesy of the George W. |
Bush Presidential Library. |
Two Navy F/A-18 Hornets patrol the skies over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. |
Both carry external fuel tanks and are armed with Paveway II laser guided GBU-16 1,000-pound bombs and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. |
In response to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. |
Bush initiated Operation Enduring Freedom in support of the Global War on Terrorism. |
National Archives identifier, 6602325. |
The tall gray walls are the walls of the Visitor Center at the Flight 93 Memorial near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. |
The black walkway is the Flight Path Walkway. |
The Flight Path Overlook is beyond the second set of walls. |
National Park Service photograph. |
Conservator Francis Lukezic begins assessing the laptop recovered from the Pentagon shortly after 9/11. |
Conservators stabilizing historic artifacts, including the “We Stand by You” bedsheet flown from FGS Lutjens as a banner of solidarity shortly after 9/11, at the Conservation Laboratory within the Collection Management Facility in Richmond, Virginia. |
Senior Conservator and textile specialist Yoonjo Lee completes the treatment process for the FGS Lutjens bedsheet at NHHC’s Conservation Laboratory in Richmond, Virginia. |
Emergency response teams responded to the Pentagon following a terrorist attack on 11 September 2001. |
Photo courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. |
Smoke and flames in the Washington, DC, skyline in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon, 11 September 2001. |
Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Houlihan. |
Flight 93 impact crater with debris taken early in the investigation near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. |
Department of Justice photograph. |
An American flag was among the mementos left by German citizens who marched from Ramstein Village to Ramstein Air Base on 14 September 2001. |
The march was a show of support and empathy for the victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and at the Pentagon. |
Hijackers deliberately flew civilian airliners into the buildings, killing themselves, the passengers, and thousands on the ground, 11 September 2001. |
National Archives identifier, 6598788. |
A U.S. Navy lieutenant dropped to one knee and placed flowers on a gravesite, while family, friends and coworkers of the 184 victims of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon, look on during a memorial service at the Arlington National Cemetery, 11 September 2003. |
National Archives identifier, 6647599. |
Badly damaged laptop recovered from the Pentagon shortly after 9/11, prior to assessment by Conservation Branch staff. |
Heat damage from the fire after the attack on the Pentagon caused thermoplastic components to melt, warp, and keys to separate from the base of the laptop. |
Additionally, heat formed an impression of a security strap on the exterior of the laptop and cracked the screen. |
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11,[d] were four coordinated Islamist suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. |
That morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions of the East Coast to California. |
The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, two of the world's five tallest buildings at the time, and aimed the next two flights toward targets in or near Washington, D.C., in an attack on the nation's capital. |
The third team succeeded in striking the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense in Arlington County, Virginia, while the fourth plane went down in rural Pennsylvania during a passenger revolt. |
The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and instigated the multi-decade global war on terror. |
The first impact was that of American Airlines Flight 11, which ringleader Mohamed Atta flew into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan at 8:46 a.m.[e] Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03,[f] the World Trade Center's South Tower was hit by United Airlines Flight 175. |
Both 110-story skyscrapers collapsed within an hour and forty-one minutes,[g] bringing about the destruction of the remaining five structures in the WTC complex and damaging or destroying nearby buildings. |
A third flight, American Airlines Flight 77, crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m., causing a partial collapse. |
The fourth and final flight, United Airlines Flight 93, flew in the direction of the capital. |
Alerted to the previous attacks, the passengers fought for control, forcing the hijackers to nosedive the plane into a Stonycreek Township field, near Indian Lake and Shanksville, at 10:03 a.m. Investigators determined that Flight 93's target was either the United States Capitol or the White House. |
That evening, President George W. |
Bush was informed by the Central Intelligence Agency that its Counterterrorism Center had identified the attacks as having been the work of al-Qaeda under Osama bin Laden's leadership. |
The United States formally responded by launching the war on terror and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, which rejected the conditions of U.S. terms to expel al-Qaeda from Afghanistan and extradite its leaders. |
The U.S.'s invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty—its only usage to date—called upon allies to fight al-Qaeda. |
As U.S. and NATO invasion forces swept through Afghanistan, bin Laden eluded them by disappearing into the White Mountains. |
He denied any involvement until 2004, when excerpts of a taped statement in which he accepted responsibility for the attacks were released. |
Al-Qaeda's cited motivations included U.S. support of Israel, the presence of U.S. military bases in Saudi Arabia and sanctions against Iraq. |
The nearly decade-long manhunt for bin Laden concluded on May 2, 2011, when he was killed during a U.S. military raid after being tracked down to his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. |
The war in Afghanistan continued for another eight years until the agreement was made in February 2020 for American and NATO troops to withdraw from the country, and the last members of the U.S. armed forces left the region on August 30, 2021, resulting in the return to power of the Taliban. |
Excluding the hijackers, the attacks killed 2,977 people, injured thousands more and gave rise to substantial long-term health consequences while also causing at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. |
It remains the deadliest terrorist attack in human history as well as the deadliest incident for firefighters and law enforcement personnel in US history, killing 343 and 72 members, respectively. |
The loss of life stemming from the impact of Flight 11 secured its place as the most lethal plane crash in aviation history followed by the death toll incurred by Flight 175. |