This page discusses World War II aerial photos taken by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and provided on-line by the Geo-spatial Digital Archive Project (GDAP) in its Williams-Hunt Aerial Photograph Digital Collection.1
The Williams-Hunt collection covers Lamphun in three separate sets of aerial photos:23
Photomosaic No. 1
The area around Lamphun town outlined above in red was recorded in five RAF aerial photos taken on 26 March 1944:4
A higher resolution image is available for download here.
The following GDAP images were used for the above photomosaic:5
02561.jpg
02562.jpg
02563.jpg
02564.jpg
02565.jpg
and assembled like this with Microsoft ICE:6
Note that 02562.jpg is superfluous in this particular arrangement.
Two photomosaics already assembled by Allied intelligence, but with less detail (lower resolution), and both undated, are also available via the same GDAP webpage:
Photomosaic No. 2
Enhanced, it looks like this:7
A higher resolution view is downloadable here.
The following GDAP image was used for the above photomosaic:
Photomosaic No. 3
Enhanced, it looks like this:7
A higher resolution view is downloadable here.
The following GDAP image was used for the above photomosaic:
GDAP, the source of these photos, has asked that the following information be included regarding the aerial imagery shown above:
- Williams-Hunt Aerial Photos Collection
- Original from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
- Digital Data from Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University
- Digital Archive from Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy (CRMA), Thailand
| Revision List | ||
| First published on Internet | ||
| Changed mosaic to ICE-generated; added 2 RAF composites + downloadables; smoothed text | ||
- The collection and its origin are described in detail in:
Lertlum, PhD, Col Surat, and Dr Elizabeth Moore, Williams-Hunt Aerial Photograph Collection, (undated); available as here linked.
Moore, Elizabeth, The Williams-Hunt Collection, Sari – International Journal of the Malay World and Civilisation, 27(2)(2009), pp 265-284.
Periasamy, Makeswary, “A View from the Top“, biblioasia, 5(1) (Apr 2009), pp 38-42. [↩]
- N18°34.6 E99°00.4 Source: Google Earth fix on the center of the old town. [↩]
- “Terrain” map from Nations Online Project: Searchable Map and Satellite View of Thailand using Google Earth Data. Annotations placed with PhotoShop by author. [↩]
- Photos were assembled using Microsoft ICE (Image Composition Editor). 02562.jpg was excluded because it is substantially inferior in quality and there is sufficent overlapping of the two adjacent images to cover the area.
The mosaic is oriented so that its north is to the top of the page. [↩]
- The files used here are 1024 KB. Downloading files designated “[full size]” requires a special request form to be emailed to the Head, GDAP. [↩]
- Drawn with Microsoft Publisher by author. [↩]
- Mosaic has been reoriented so that its north is to the top of the page. [↩] [↩]
