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[Aerial view of Tokyo, after bombing by U.S. 20th Air Force] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Aerial view of Tokyo, after bombing by U.S. 20th Air Force], [1945] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Tokyo, after bombing by U.S. 20th Air Force], [1945]. Historic photograph from the Asia, Africa & Australia 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 Tokyo, after bombing by U.S. 20th Air Force], 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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Few images show the scale of wartime bombing as plainly as this 1945 aerial view of Tokyo after raids by the U.S. 20th Air Force. The print comes from the Ira Clarence Eaker collection and sits in an album of 20th Air Force operations, so it was assembled as part of the official record of the campaign. The incendiary raid of March 9-10, 1945, burned out large sections of the densely built wooden city, and photographs like this one documented how far the destruction reached. Estimates of the dead from that single night run to about 100,000, a toll worth keeping in mind when studying the pattern of ruin across the frame.

Created / published[1945]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreAerial photographs 1940-1950.Photographic prints 1940-1950.
NotesIra Clarence Eaker Collection. In album: 20th Air Force Operations, v. 2.
SubjectsWorld War, 1939-1945--Air operations--American--Japan--Tokyo. Aerial bombings--Japan--Tokyo--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-190091

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