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[Aerial view of Tachikawa Aircraft Co., Tackikawa, Japan] – Vintage Wall Art

[Aerial view of Tachikawa Aircraft Co., Tackikawa, Japan], [1945] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Tachikawa Aircraft Co., 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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[Aerial view of Tachikawa Aircraft Co., Tackikawa, Japan]

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The Tachikawa Aircraft Company works in Tachikawa, a city on the western edge of Tokyo, appear here from directly overhead. The print comes from an album titled *Precision targets*, a compilation of aerial photographs that American planners used to select and study bombing targets in 1945. Tachikawa was home to Japanese Army aircraft production and a nearby air base, which made the plant a strategic objective late in the war. The layout of buildings, roads, and open ground shows how such images were read for target selection.

Created / published[1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesIn album: Precision targets, vol. 3, p. 57-45.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--Japan--Tachikawa-shi.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,308 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-191673

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