[sushiman]

The city I now live in . Had no idea until today it was attacked the day after the nearby Nagasaki was hit by the atomic bomb . 10 photos in all on this site . Click on top pic and go from there .

[DAC21]

Wow, not sure if the plane taking the photos was one of the Bombers or some kind of recon. plane tagging along. Either way they must not have feared of any air defenses as the photos look from a very low altitude.

[Delta 21]

Nobody gets any recognition after the main event. Consider it an obligatory encore.

[Chainmail]

It's hard to pick out what the motivation for publishing these photos is at this point. It's a low-level, reasonably precise attack against what appears to be legitimate military targets while the war was still going. The "incendiary" weapons the author cite appear to be secondary explosions of the target - explosives within the target complexes going off. The article also says that these photos are going to be printed on leaflets to be circulated at schools.

If so, they should include a paragraph on the consequences of attacking a major nation without warning or declaration of war. Or keeping legitimate prisoners of war as slave labor and starving and beating them until a large portion are dead. Or refusing surrender until it became necessary use extraordinary measures to finally subdue them.

They reaped what they sowed.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We lived in Sagamihara and Yokohama in the 1950s.
Large swaths of both cities were still piles of rubble or simply empty...

[Nailbiter]

ping

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

**Had no idea until today it was attacked the day after the nearby Nagasaki was hit by the atomic bomb ***

The first time I heard about this was back in 1968, on Okinawa when AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio and TV Station) was showing old WW II documentaries. When it came to the A-blasts the screen suddenly went blank for a few seconds (censorship). When it came back on, it was talking about the other raids after the A-blasts.

[Terry L Smith]

The 5th AF left too many buildings standing.

The bombers should have leveled Tokyo, all of it, those damn castles, too.

[rlmorel]

On a related note, about ten years ago, my wife's family had these pictures and gave them to me. Her mother worked at a drug store that had photo developing back in the late Forties/early Fifties, and people always brought in things to be developed and never came back for them.

They either threw them out, or if they saw something they liked, they could take them. These images were from a sailor off of a carrier that came into the Boston Navy Yard (possibly the USS Leyte?) who had dropped negatives off to be developed and never picked them up:

They knew I was interested in these kinds of things, and they showed them to me. I wondered if these were pictures that had ever been published or seen anywhere, or just copies taken from negatives that had been on the ship.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Batman11]

PFL