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[Aerial view of Musashino, Japan (Tokyo area), before bombing by U.S. 20th Air Force] – Vintage Photo Print

[Aerial view of Musashino, Japan (Tokyo area), before bombing by U.S. 20th Air Force], [1945] — historic photograph
[Aerial view of Musashino, Japan (Tokyo area), before 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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Musashino, a city on the western edge of Tokyo, is the subject of this 1945 aerial view, which its caption describes as taken before the 20th Air Force bombed the area. Reconnaissance photographs like this one helped American planners identify factories, rail lines, and built-up districts that could be targeted from the high altitudes at which B-29 Superfortresses flew. The print comes from an album of 20th Air Force operations assembled by the collection of Ira Clarence Eaker, a senior Army Air Forces officer. Viewed today, it shows how the Tokyo plain looked from the air just before the air campaign reached the capital's outskirts.

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--Musashino-shi. Aerial bombings--Japan--Musashino-shi--1940-1950.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,259 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-190088

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