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The Pentagon

September 11, 2001

9:45 am EDT

September 11, 2001 -- 9:45 a.m. EDTAn American Airlines flight from Washington to Los Angeles

plowed into the Pentagon with 64 passengers and crew aboard. The jet, which had just taken off from Dulles Airport,

set the world's largest office building ablaze.

September 11, 2001 -- 10:10 a.m. EDTA portion of the Pentagon collapses.

The jet struck a section of the building that housed Army offices.

Firefighters fought hard to extinguish the flames. Recent renovations included improved fire

suppression materials, which helped decrease the spread of the flames.

Washington's hospitals reported more than 50 injured, and the number increased as the day went on.

"Huge explosion, great ball of fire, smoke started billowing out, and then it was just chaos."

-- Mike Walter, an eyewitness, told CNN.

Lisa Burgess, a reporter for Stars and Stripes newspaper, said she was walking in a corridor near

the blast site and was thrown to the ground by the force of the blast.

Pentagon officials said all U.S. military sites around the world went to Threat Con Delta, which means that a

terrorist attack has occurred or an attack at a specific location was likely.

Damage includes a huge hole cut through the smoldering wreckage of the Pentagon.

Gen. Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the attacks "barbaric

terrorism carried out by fanatics."

Despite the massive damage, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the Pentagon

would open for business Wednesday.

Exhausted but driven, hundreds of volunteers continued going through tons of rubble and using heavy equipment to remove

debris from the World Trade Center wreckage. Plummeting temperatures before dawn on Saturday sent workers

rummaging through Salvation Army clothes for sweaters.

September 15, 2001

Workers continue their recovery effort at the Pentagon as the morning sun lights up the

sky with the Capitol dome in the background.

A volunteer watches the jaws of a giant crane reach for twisted steel beams that once supported the World Trade Center.

An exterior wall of the World Trade Center is lit by lights at the site of the World Trade

Center attack early Saturday.

Firefighters walk away early Saturday from the twisted metal and rubble left after Tuesday's terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York.

Onlookers line up to sign a sympathy banner on a hill overlooking the Pentagon.

Shanksville, Pennsylvania

September 11, 2001

Emergency workers look at the crater created when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. Radar showed the Boeing 757, bound for San Francisco, California, from Newark, New Jersey, had nearly reached Cleveland when it made a sharp left turn and headed back toward Pennsylvania, crashing in a grassy field edged by woods about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. There were no survivors.

Two men survey the scene near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 crashed while heading from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, California

More slides

With all Manhattan bridges closed, people left on foot

Woman covered in dust and soot.

Satellite view of Manhattan, the day after.

Smoke trail from Manhattan, as seen from the space station.

Satellite view of damage to the Pentagon.

A reminder of what it looked like on June 30, 2001, from a satellite’s viewpoint.

The fountain between the WTC towers.

As it once was…