Picture No | 10220241 |
Date | 1945 |
Description | Aerial View of Tokyo, Japan, Second World War, 1945 |
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Aerial photograph showing some of the areas (dark patches) of Tokyo destroyed by American bombing. By the time this photograph was taken General Curtis Le May was able to boast that 51 square miles of Tokyo had already been burnt to the ground.
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Source | Photograph in ‘The Illustrated London News’, 9 June 1945, page 613 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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