【01/28更新】日軍在台灣使用的防空氣球
[Updated] Japanese Barrage Balloon on Formosa

NARA via Fold3.com

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昭和時期台灣的競馬場空照圖
Aerial Photos of Horse Racing Tracks on Formosa

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高雄港入口的老照片
Old Photos of Kaohsiung Harbor Entrance

US Navy 1944 via Academia Sinica

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罕為人知的苓雅寮飛行場
The Little-Known Reigaryo Airdrome (Part 3)

下面的剪報雖然夾雜了一大堆日文假名，但是我要引用的重點是用紅線標出的部分，大意是日本鋁株式會社（日本アルミニウム会社）即將成立，並準備以900萬圓買下日本海軍在高雄一塊七萬多坪的土地來設置工廠。標題的「輕銀」兩字就是鋁的別稱。第二篇剪報則報導日本鋁株式會社（不過是用アルミニューム來拼「鋁」這個字）已在1935年6月21日成立，其中也提到在高雄設立工廠，預定於次年秋天開始運轉。
On June 21, 1935 (Showa 10), Nippon Aluminum Company was founded as a joint venture by several Japanese industrial companies. The new company acquired land in Takao from the Imperial Navy to build the production facilities, whose initial production was planned in the autumn of 1936.

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罕為人知的苓雅寮飛行場
The Little-Known Reigaryo Airdrome (Part 2)

Source： Japan Center for Asian Historical Records

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罕為人知的苓雅寮飛行場
The Little-Known Reigaryo Airdrome (Part 1)

Source： Japan Center for Asian Historical Records

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高雄水上飛機場
Takao Seaplane Base

Source： Formosa Interim Report, February 1944, via Academia Sinica

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攻擊高雄港！ Battle of Formosa: Takao Harbor

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前三次B-29對台轟炸任務的規劃歷程 Planning First Three B-29 Raids Against Formosa

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B-29第三度轟炸 Third B-29 Raid Against Formosa

Source： NARA via Fold3.com

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