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new orleans before
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after
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343 that makes me want to bang a Matisse painting. Not sure why.
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>>431249
I love you
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>>431225
hahaha good riddence
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>>434193
Boston 1923.

>>434199
Boston 1934, North Station.

>>434202
Boston 1946.

This picture, Boston 1946, Quincy Market in the top left.
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>>431110
Any chance of an ID?
>> Bat Guano
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Aerial shots of a city?
Best seen through the sights of a bomber.
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>>434270
Very cool, as per usual. Any more, or any chance of an ID of that specific city?
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>>434272
No idea.
Just some city.
Getting bombed.
One of hundreds.
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US bombing of Tokyo by B-29s May 26, 1945.
B-29 missions against Tokyo:

* 19 February 1945 119 B-29s hit port and urban area
* 25 February 1945 174 B-29s dropping incendiaries destroy ~28,000 buildings
* 4 March 1945 159 B-29s hit urban area
* 10 March 1945 279 B-29s dropping incendiaries destroy ~267,000 buildings; ~25% of city (Operation Meetinghouse) killing some 100,000 civilians
* 2 April 1945 >100 B-29s bomb the Nakajima aircraft factory
* 3 April 1945 68 B-29s bomb the Koizumi aircraft factory and urban areas in Tokyo
* 7 April 1945 101 B-29s bomb the Nakajima aircraft factory.
* 13 April 1945 <330 B-29s bomb the arsenal area
* 15 April 1945 109 B-29s hit urban area
* 24 May 1945 520 B-29s bomb urban-industrial area south of the Imperial Palace
* 26 April 1945 464 B-29s bomb urban area immediately south of the Imperial Palace
* 20 July 1945 1 B-29 drops a Pumpkin bomb through overcast aiming at but missing the Imperial Palace
* 8 August 1945 ~60 B-29s bomb the aircraft factory and arsenal
* 10 August 1945 70 B-29s bomb the arsenal complex

Additional missions against Tokyo targets were carried out by twin-engine bombers and by fighter-bombers.
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Pumpkin Bombs? As in those jack-o-lantern grenades thrown by the Green Goblin against Spiderman?
No, just big round bombs:
"Pumpkin bombs" were conventional high explosive aerial bombs developed by the Manhattan Project and used by the United States Army Air Forces against Japan during World War II. The name "pumpkin bomb" resulted from the large ellipsoidal shape of the munition and was the actual reference term used in official documents. 486 of the bombs were built and 49 dropped on Japanese targets by the 509th Composite Group.

The concept for the pumpkin bomb originated with Navy Captain William S. Parsons of the Ordnance Division at Los Alamos and USAAF Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, commander of the 509th CG, on December 13, 1944, as a means of providing continued realistic training for the B-29 crews assigned to drop the atomic bomb after their deployment to the Western Pacific. The bomb would be a close but non-nuclear replication of the Fat Man plutonium bomb with the same ballistic and handling characteristics. Mission parameters would be similar to those of the actual atomic bomb missions and all targets located in the vicinity of the cities designated for atomic attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_bomb

Pic: US 'Fat Man' implosion type plutonium atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki, on Aug. 9, 1945.
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US WW2 bombing result of Dersden, the next day as seen from a church.
>> Anonymous
That Boston shot has south up.
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Poster of Boston images here.

>>434306
Which one? Will correct it on my end.
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Yeah, would have been clever of me to say...

1223331705.jpg

The closer in one that chops Fan'l Hall in the upper left corner.
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>> i wonder...... Anonymous
"486 of the bombs were built and 49 dropped on Japanese targets by the 509th Composite Group."

That's a lot of practice munitions unless there were thoughts beyond Japan. Where was Crazy LeMay in 1945?
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US General Curtis E. LeMay, after working as Chief of the 8th Air Force in the air campaign against Germany, became Chief of Bomber Command against Japan.
Endorsed low-altitude incendiary bombing of Japanese cities and industrial centers. Ran a brilliant and merciless air campaign against a near-helpless foe.
So, in answer to your question, LeMay was directing the razing of Japanese cities to the ground in 1945.

Fog of War- Lesson #5- Proportionality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzUStZaTGAQ
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>>434352
what game is this?
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>>434413
Battletoads.
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>>434352
Where is this?
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>>No.434385

Thanks, not surprised by his duties back then. I'm in OR just back from a run to the Safeway. I saw at least 6 Old Believer Russians there. Dang Reds is underfoot hereabouts. ;P
>> Anonymous
Norfolk, VA, USA

The game is "Google Earth."
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http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.266198,51.443374&spn=0.032212,0.05579&t=h&
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