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[Aerial view of Tachikawa Air Depot, Tackikawa, Japan, before bombing] – Antique Photo Print

[Aerial view of Tachikawa Air Depot, Tackikawa, Japan, before bombing], [1945] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Tachikawa Air Depot, Tackikawa, 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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Few installations in the Tokyo region were as central to Japan's wartime aviation as the Tachikawa Air Depot, the army facility in Tachikawa, on the western edge of the capital, that handled aircraft repair and supply. This 1945 aerial view shows the depot before it was bombed, and it comes from an album titled *Precision Targets*, a set of images assembled so that planners could study runways, buildings and layouts before attacking. Such pictures were taken by reconnaissance aircraft and used to plan the raids American bombers carried out over Japan in the final months of the war. The arrangement of hangars and workshops across the grounds shows the scale of the depot's operations.

Created / published[1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesIn album: Precision targets, vol. 3, p. 60-46.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--Japan--Tachikawa-shi.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191676

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