Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel had been billed as "fireproof", but in the predawn hours of December 7, 1946--on the fifth anniversary of Pearl Harbor--280 of its citizens awoke suddenly in hotel already burning wildly out of control. Here is the story of the catastrophe, and of the investigation that went awry. 30 photographs.
Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel had been billed as "fireproof", but in the predawn hours of December 7, 1946--on the fifth anniversary of Pearl Harbor--280 of its citizens awoke suddenly in hotel already burning wildly out of contr...
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