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[Aerial view of bombing of Tachikawa Air Depot, Tackikawa, Japan] – Historic Photograph Print

[Aerial view of bombing of Tachikawa Air Depot, Tackikawa, Japan], [1945] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of bombing of Tachikawa Air Depot, Tackikawa, Japan], [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 bombing of Tachikawa Air Depot, Tackikawa, Japan], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Aerial view of bombing of Tachikawa Air Depot, Tackikawa, Japan]

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Tachikawa Air Depot, a Japanese Army facility west of Tokyo that repaired and supplied aircraft, is the subject of this 1945 aerial view taken during the bombing of the site. American bombers struck Tachikawa and other Japanese aviation installations in the final months of the Pacific War, when Allied planners were working to cripple Japan's ability to fight in the air. The print comes from an album titled *Precision targets*, a collection of target and damage photographs that analysts used to judge bombing results, so it reflects both the wartime purpose of aerial reconnaissance and the destruction it recorded.

Created / published[1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesIn album: Precision targets, vol. 3, p. 61-46.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--Japan--Tachikawa-shi. Aerial bombings--Japan--Tachikawa-shi--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,278 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191677

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