Lamphun Aerial Photomosaic

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)¹ in its Williams-Hunt Aerial Photograph Digital Collection.²

The Williams-Hunt collection covers Lamphun³ in three separate sets of aerial photos:⁴

Photomosaic No. 1

The area around Lamphun town outlined above in red was recorded in five RAF aerial photos taken on 26 March 1944:⁵

A higher resolution image is available for downloading here.⁶

The following GDAP images were used for the above photomosaic:⁷

02561.zip
02562.zip
02563.zip
02564.zip
02565.zip

and assembled like this with Microsoft ICE:⁸

Two photomosaics already assembled by Allied intelligence, but with less detail (lower resolution), and both undated, were also available via the same GDAP webpage:

Photomosaic No. 2

Enhanced, it looks like this:⁹

A higher resolution view is downloadable here.

GDAP image, 02559.jpg, was used for the above photomosaic.

Photomosaic No. 3

Enhanced, it looks like this:¹⁰

A higher resolution view is downloadable here.

GDAP image, 02569.jpg 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

Last Updated on 10 January 2026

1. webpage, at link <http://gdap.crma.ac.th/> is no longer available[↩]
2. webpage, at link <http://gdap.crma.ac.th/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=3> is no longer available. 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.[↩]

3. N18°34.6 E99°00.4 Source: Google Earth fix on the center of the old town.[↩]
4. “Terrain” map from Nations Online Project: Searchable Map and Satellite View of Thailand using Google Earth Data (link: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_thailand.htm is no longer available). Annotation with PhotoShop by author; my ref: \02370 Other locations\02370 Lamphun\WH aerials\Mosaic locatns on Lamphun.jpg[↩]
5. Photos were assembled with Microsoft’s ICE, a panorama program. The mosaic is oriented so that north is top-of-page.[↩]
6. my ref: \02370 Other locations\02370 Lamphun\WH aerials\aerial composite-fotos-ICE-tilt.jpg[↩]
7. The files used here are ~500 KB. My refs: \bPROJECT\_MAPS\THAILAND Maps\Williams-Hunt (WH) Aerials\LPG\LPG 09 Lamphun City ok\Working copies\. . .b.jpgs. Note that 02562.jpg was eventually excluded because it was substantially inferior in quality and there was sufficent overlapping of the two adjacent images to cover the area.[↩]
8. Drawn with Microsoft Publisher by author; note how 02562.jpg is superfluous in this particular arrangement. My ref: \02370 Other locations\02370 Lamphun\WH aerials\aerial composite – assy-tilt-redaa.jpg.[↩]
9. Mosaic has been reoriented so that north is top-of-page; my ref: \02370 Other locations\02370 Lamphun\WH aerials\02559-tilt.jpg.[↩]
10. Mosaic has been reoriented so that north is top-of-page; my ref: \02370 Other locations\02370 Lamphun\WH aerials\02560-tilt.jpg[↩]