Based on the codes written on the photographs taken during the bombing raid, I was able to identify the USAAF units taking part in the Jitsugetsu strike:根據轟炸當天拍攝照片邊上所寫的註記，可以知道哪些美軍單位參與了這次日月潭轟炸行動： These B-24 equipped units, all…
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Striking Jitsugetsu! 日月潭大轟炸! Part 5
Source：NARA via Academia Sinica 中央研究院臺灣文史資源海外徵集與國際合作計畫「美國國家檔案館典藏臺灣舊航空照片」 (G03489) The above photo captured three important facilities of Jitsugetsu hydro-electric power project: Power Plant No. 2 (burning, lower-left corner), Gun Cabinet Dam (top), and Erping Housing…
Striking Jitsugetsu! 日月潭大轟炸! Part 4
Source：NARA via Academia Sinica 中央研究院臺灣文史資源海外徵集與國際合作計畫「美國國家檔案館典藏臺灣舊航空照片」 (G03489) The above photo of Jitsugetsu Power Plant No. 2 (Target 83) was taken on March 23, 1945, by American aircraft only moments before it dropped bombs…
Striking Jitsugetsu! 日月潭大轟炸! Part 3
Source: AFHRA via Academia Sinica 中央研究院臺灣文史資源海外徵集與國際合作計畫「美國空軍歷史研究部徵集成果」 (Formosa Interim Report) Completed in 1934, Jitsugetsu Tan Power Plant No. 1 was previously name Monpaitan. It had the maximum power output of 140,000 horsepower, which…
Striking Jitsugetsu! 日月潭大轟炸! Part 2
Source: AFHRA via Academia Sinica 中央研究院臺灣文史資源海外徵集與國際合作計畫「美國空軍歷史研究部徵集成果」 (Formosa Interim Report) The following photo, looking south at Jitsugetsu Tan (Sun Moon Lake), was taken on March 23, 1945, the day of massive bombing by…
Striking Jitsugetsu! 日月潭大轟炸! Part 1
The West Australian, Tuesday, March 27, 1945, page 6. Source：Trove In Formosa Interim Report, prepared by the Air Staff, Intelligence, in February 1944, the U.S. military had identified the following three hydro-electric…
Bombing Eiko Airfield?
The intelligence report titled Airfield and Seaplane Bases in Formosa, Air Intelligence Group, Division of Naval Intelligence, Office of the Chief Naval Operations, Navy Department, June 1944, gave the coordinates of Eiko…
Raid of Hokuto Airdrome (轟炸北斗飛行場！)
This CriticalPast page has a footage showing US Navy TBF bombers bombed some airfields during WWII. Although it says that Eiko was the airstrip being bombed, I am 100% certain that the…
Heito POW Camp (屏東戰俘營)
In the above photo, taken on January 31, 1945, the white arrow points to the suspected Heito (Japanese pronunciation of Pingtung) POW Camp site. The straight line, running from left to right…
Takao POW Camp (高雄戰俘營)
In the above photo taken on October 12, 1944, I have circled the area where I suspected the Takao POW Camp was located. It was built by the Takao (now Kaohsiung) Harbor….