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[Aerial view of Nakajima Aircraft Co., Musashino Plant, Japan, before bombing] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Aerial view of Nakajima Aircraft Co., Musashino Plant, Japan, before bombing], [1945] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Nakajima Aircraft Co., Musashino Plant, Japan, before bombing], [1945]. Historic photograph from the The West collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Aerial view of Nakajima Aircraft Co., Musashino Plant, Japan, before bombing], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Aerial view of Nakajima Aircraft Co., Musashino Plant, Japan, before bombing]

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This aerial view shows the Nakajima Aircraft Company's Musashino plant in Musashino, on the outskirts of Tokyo, photographed in 1945 before it was bombed. Nakajima was among Japan's largest aircraft makers, and its factories built engines and airframes for the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. The picture comes from an album of "precision targets" compiled by American forces, which catalogued industrial sites for the strategic bombing campaign against Japan's aircraft production in the final year of the war. Such images were used to plan raids, so the layout of buildings, rail lines and open ground was recorded for targeting as much as for documentation.

Created / published[1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesIn album: Precision targets, vol. 3, p. 17-31.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--Japan--Musashino-shi.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,267 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191670

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