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[Aerial view of Kawasaki Petroleum Center, Akashi, Japan, after bombing] – Vintage Photo Print

[Aerial view of Kawasaki Petroleum Center, Akashi, Japan, after bombing], [1945] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Kawasaki Petroleum Center, Akashi, Japan, after 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 images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Aerial view of Kawasaki Petroleum Center, Akashi, Japan, after bombing]. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Few views of wartime Japan are as direct as this aerial look at the Kawasaki Petroleum Center in Akashi, a port city on the Inland Sea west of Kobe. Taken in 1945, the photograph records bomb damage to a fuel storage site at a time when oil was among the most sought-after targets for American forces, since Japan's shrinking petroleum supplies were badly limiting its military and industry. Aerial photographs like this one were used to assess what had been destroyed, and today they offer an overhead record of how the air war reached ordinary industrial towns.

Created / published[1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesIn album: Urban areas, vol. 2, p. 55-19.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--Japan--Akashi-shi. Aerial bombings--Japan--Akashi-shi--1940-1950. War damage--Japan--Akashi-shi--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,264 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191683

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