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美國陸軍飛機攻擊嘉義化學工場
USAAF Bombed Kagi Butanol PlantPosted on November 1st, 2013 No comments上面這張照片下緣的文字告訴我們這是美國陸軍航空隊第3轟炸大隊在1945年4月8日執行98-C-?號任務時拍攝的,地點就在台灣的嘉義。經過比對之後,發現被攻擊的是台拓化學工業株式會社的嘉義化學工場(當時的主要產品是丁醇和丙酮;戰後經過幾次轉型,目前是台灣中油的煉製研究所)。由於我找不到第3轟炸大隊的任務報告,因此就沒有更多關於這次任務的資訊可以在此提供。
The text below the photo reveals that the photo was taken on April 8, 1945, when the 3rd Bombardment Group of the US Army Air Force carried out Mission 98-C-? over Kagi (currently Chiayi). The factory being bombed was the butanol plant owned by the Taiwan Development Chemical Industry Co. No additional information about this photo is available.在同一批照片檔案中,我找到以下這張沒有日期、被檔案管理人員標註為嘉義鐵路調車場(Kagi railroad yard)的攻擊照片,兩個手畫的白色圈圈裡是B-25投下的傘降殺傷彈(parafrag bomb),然而我在嘉義火車站一帶的空照圖中卻始終找不到場景裡的地點。後來在美軍分析嘉義化學工場偵照的報告中,發現一段文字描述一塊長方形區域內設有多個儲存槽。我再回到嘉義化學工場的空照圖尋找,果然就看到了這張照片所涵蓋的區域。
In the same archive containing the first photo, I found the undated image below, which the curator described as “Parafrag bombs (encircled) dropped on Kagi railroad yards in Formosa by North American B-25s of the 5th Air Force”. However, I was not able to locate the scene on the reconnaissance photos of Kagi railroad yard. I seemed to recall that the photo interpretation report on the Kagi butanol plant referred to a rectangular area enclosing tanks. So I searched the reconnaissance photo again and indeed found the location inside the butanol plant.利用下面這張1945年6月拍攝的垂直偵察照片,我把前面兩張照片所涵蓋的範圍分別標示出來:
Using the June 1944 vertical reconnaissance photo as a reference, I marked the areas covered by the above two photos with arrows. The area between each pair of arrows is the field of view of the corresponding photo.下圖是美國陸軍1945年編繪的嘉義地圖中,涵蓋嘉義化學工場的局部:
The image below is from US Army’s Map of Kagi in 1945:相同地點的現代衛星空照圖:
The modern satellite image covering the same area:3rd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force, B-25, Bombing Formosa, 空襲台灣, Google, Kagi, Taiwan Development Company, Taiwan Takushoku Kabushiki Kaisha, 台灣拓殖株式會社, 台拓化學工業, 台湾拓殖株式会社, 嘉義, 嘉義化學工場, 中油Leave a reply
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