Complete destruction after fire bombing, Tokyo

Gift of Ralph F. Feuchter, Jr.
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Photograph, aerial. Bombed Japanese landscape. Personal caption: "Tokyo bombed area." Official caption: "Released. If published credit must be given as follows 'Official Photograph U.S. Navy.' " Tokyo, Japan. Circa 1944-45

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1944
1945
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Collection consists of fifty-two official issue USN photographs which were declassified after the war. They were given to Ralph "Dutch" Feuchter by G.B. Hoagland, his first cousin, who served on the aircraft carrier from which many of them were taken. Hoagland was a photographer, but did not take these photographs.
Geography: 
Tōkyō
Latitude: 
35.750
Longitude: 
139.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Napalm--Japan