B should be Kawasaki ( where I also once lived ) not Kamasaki . Osaka not Osake ( o sake is Japanese rice wine hehe ) Shimonoseki not Shimosenka . Who the hell typed up this list ? Must have drunk too much sake !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.
BTW , Kumamoto was on the short list of cities considered for an A bomb attack . Nagasaki was not if I remember correctly . The Kyushu target was Kokura near Fukuoka but because of cloudy skies they flew further west to Nagasaki where skies were clear .
B should be Kawasaki ( where I also once lived ) not Kamasaki . Osaka not Osake ( o sake is Japanese rice wine hehe ) Shimonoseki not Shimosenka . Who the hell typed up this list ? Must have drunk too much sake !the photos look from a very low altitude.
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No way to know plane altitude, since there is no information as to plane altitude, the lens magnification, or whether these images are blow ups from larger images.
I just assumed they were fighters taking the pictures, either Hellcats or Mustangs.
They look like they are simply strafing and bombing. If they are low enough to get pictures like that, they weren’t B-29’s, I feel pretty confident about that.
They were under orders to strafe and shoot up anything that moved. Or didn’t move.