Object Details
- 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
- ID Number
- 2002.0238.02
- catalog number
- 2002.0238.02
- accession number
- 2002.0238
- Object Name
- Door
- 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
- recovery site
- United States: New York, Fresh Kills
- recovered
- United States: New York, Manhattan, World Trade Center
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, 9/11
- September 11
- National Museum of American History
- associated subject
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks
- related event
- Attack on the World Trade Center
- September 11th Attacks
- Record ID
- nmah_1195301
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-62fd-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
