Tokyo #2B POW Camp
Kawasaki - Aerial photo of destruction

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TOKYO AREA PRISONER OF WAR CAMP #2 KAWASAKI, JAPAN PHOTO TAKEN RIGHT AFTER THE JULY 25, 1945 BOMBING BY B-29s
(Courtesy of Edward Jackfert, ADBC)

Kawasaki 2B aerial

l. Area across from Mitsui office building where our camp building used to stand. Direct hit by a bomb destroying it and killing 22 of our comrades.
2. The power plant nearby does not seem to be touched.
3. Large cranes that worked over the warehouses.
4. Cranes used to unload coal barges.
5. Large crane destroyed.
6. Hayama Oil Company, the target of the raid was almost untouched.
7. Area of Show Denko chemical plant.
8. Mitsui warehouses where we all worked at one time or another.