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Air Coverage, Yawata, Japan, 02/10/1946 - 02/18/1946
About this film
National Archives description "56' Various passes over the steel mills area, flying E to NE over Doaki Bay to Maeda Anchorage. 5' City proper - incendiary attack effect to homes S of railroad tracks. 4' Blast furnace and smelting area of steel mills (S end). 4' City area untouched by fire. S end of plant. 5' Housing area for workers, S of Yawata. 91' Flying SE at an altitude of 500 feet across Dokai Bay to SE portion of the Japan Iron Works at Maeda Anchorage. Views show the banks A, B, and C, Coke Plant, and Gasometer. Flying N to E across Wakamatsu installations of the Japan Iron Works. 67' Flying from the E to a SW section of the Japan Iron Works showing the coke oven banks and misc. bomb damage. Flying NE to SW past Katsura Island and Maeda Anchorage showing SE portion of the Japan Iron Works. Views of the coke banks A, B and C showing dismantled battery and bomb damaged area. Flying from a NE direction to the SW showing the area between Wakamatsu harbor and Tobata, past Katsura Island to the SE part of the Japan Iron Works." National Archives Identifier: 64477
Directors & creators
United States. Army Air Forces
Subjects
WWII, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial Operations, American, United States. Army Air Forces, World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan, World War II: Postwar Issues
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