Japanese Air Target Analyses
Records: 7,853 · Complete: 100%
Contemporary analyses of the Allied bombing strategy in aerial attacks on Japanese targets during World War II. Tactical mission reports, aircraft action reports, tabulations of attack and bombing data, and photo intelligence reports detail effects on the Japanese infrastructure, including the petroleum, shipping, armament, and transportation industries. Hundreds of aerial photographs and many maps are found within the analyses sections and in the prolific "Target Photographs" section.
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Source Information
"U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific): Japanese Air Target Analyses, Objective Folders, and Aerial Photographs, 1942-45" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com//title/85/japanese-air-target-analyses: accessed March 5, 2021)
- Publication Title
- Japanese Air Target Analyses
- Total Records
- 7,853 · Complete: 100%
- Content Source
The National Archives
- Publication Number
- M1653
- Published on Fold3
- 11 Oct 2007
- Last Updated
- 12 Oct 2007
- Description
- NARA M1653. WWII Japanese air target analyses, objectives, and aerial photographs, 1942-45, from the records of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey.