How the Pentagon’s Design Saved Lives on September 11
At 9:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a 62-year-old Pentagon employee and retired Air Force communications specialist was sitting in traffic west of the Pentagon when a roaring jet engine passed...
The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial - U.S. Department of Defense
The Pentagon Memorial is the first national memorial dedicated to honoring the 184 people whose lives were lost when hijackers flew a jetliner into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.
Pentagon ‑ Location, Building Timeline, 9/11 - HISTORY
Dec 18, 2009 · How the Pentagon’s Design Saved Lives on September 11. On September 11, 2001, 125 people inside the Pentagon were killed. The losses were devastating, but it could have been even worse.
Pentagon Memorial - Wikipedia
The Pentagon Memorial, formally the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, located just southwest of the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., is a permanent outdoor memorial to the 184 people who died as victims in the building and on American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11 attacks.
9/11 Timeline ‑ Videos, World Trade Center Attacks | HISTORY
Jun 21, 2011 · On September 11, 2001 —a clear, sunny, late summer day—al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New...
Historical Office > DOD History > Pentagon > 9/11 Attack
As no other event in U.S. history, not even Pearl Harbor, the deadly assaults on New York and Washington that took the lives of almost 3,000 people on 11 September 2001 shattered the nation's...
September 11 attacks: What happened on 9/11? - BBC News
Aug 1, 2024 · At 09:37 the third plane destroyed the western face of the Pentagon - the giant headquarters of the US military just outside the nation's capital, Washington DC.
9/11 Memorial Timeline
On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists who were members of al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist network, hijacked four commercial airplanes. In a coordinated attack, the hijackers intentionally flew two of the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, and a third into the Pentagon.
How the September 11 attacks unfolded | Britannica
September 11 attacks, Series of airline hijackings and suicide bombings against U.S. targets perpetrated by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda.
25 Intense Photos Captured at the Pentagon on 9/11
Sep 7, 2022 · As Americans pause to remember 9/11, the anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, haunting images of...