What Secrets Did the Photographer Know?
4月
14日
All wartime bases hold secrets. Some secrets involve military tactics, such as the struggle by B-25 bomber crews to find an effective technique for destroying the bridges they targeted in Burma. Other secrets were related to propaganda, such as the colonial government’s claim there was no shortage of food at a time when the price of rice was rising dramatically and the region was on the verge of a devastating famine. Ondal’s biggest secret in March of 1943, however, was both local and broadly strategic. The US was developing Ondal not just as a base for medium-range B-25 bombers but also as the site of Ondal Advanced Chemical Park. By early 1945, Ondal ACP would house a stockpile of nearly 100,000 mustard, phosgene, cyanogen chloride and other chemical bombs that could have been—but never were—delivered to the Japanese home islands on long-range B-29 bombers operating through China.
Which secrets, if any, do you think the photographer knew when he took his photos at Ondal?
Fred Thomas
aka: A Hoosier Scientist
http://www.hoosierscientist.com