Police Car Door
Police Car Door
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- Description
- Description: This door panel was removed from a New York Police Department patrol car crushed by the falling debris of the World Trade Center.
- Context: New York City police officers immediately responded to the attack on the World Trade Center. With the collapse of the buildings, the NYPD lost both officers and vehicles. This door panel was removed from a crushed patrol car. Many fire trucks, squad cars, taxis, delivery vehicles, and private automobiles were destroyed as the World Trade Center collapsed. Twenty-three NYPD officers were killed in their attempts to save World Trade Center tenants.
- Description: This door panel was removed from a New York Police Department patrol car crushed by the falling debris of the World Trade Center.
- Context: New York City police officers immediately responded to the attack on the World Trade Center. With the collapse of the buildings, the NYPD lost both officers and vehicles. This door panel was removed from a crushed patrol car. Many fire trucks, squad cars, taxis, delivery vehicles, and private automobiles were destroyed as the World Trade Center collapsed. Twenty-three NYPD officers were killed in their attempts to save World Trade Center tenants.
- Description: This door panel was removed from a New York Police Department patrol car crushed by the falling debris of the World Trade Center.
- Context: New York City police officers immediately responded to the attack on the World Trade Center. With the collapse of the buildings, the NYPD lost both officers and vehicles. This door panel was removed from a crushed patrol car. Many fire trucks, squad cars, taxis, delivery vehicles, and private automobiles were destroyed as the World Trade Center collapsed. Twenty-three NYPD officers were killed in their attempts to save World Trade Center tenants.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Door
- recovery site
- United States: New York, Fresh Kills
- recovered
- United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
- Measurements
- overall: 71 cm x 142 cm x 20.4 cm; 27 15/16 in x 55 7/8 in x 8 1/16 in
- ID Number
- 2002.0238.02
- catalog number
- 2002.0238.02
- accession number
- 2002.0238
- subject
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
- Attack on the World Trade Center
- September 11th Attacks
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, 9/11
- September 11
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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