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 has a single set of aerial photos for Phayao2 dated 05 October 1944:3
The four-photo aerial photomosaic:4
A larger image is available for download here.
The following GDAP images were used in the above photomosaic:5
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02571.jpg
02572.jpg
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and assembled approximately like this, using a combination of Microsoft ICE and manual fitting:6
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
| First published on Internet | ||
- 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. [↩]
- N19°10.00 E99°54.10 Source: Google Earth fix on apparent center of town. [↩]
- “Terrain” map from Nations Online Project: Searchable Map and Satellite View of Thailand using Google Earth Data. Annotation (red & blue colored items) were placed by author using Microsoft Publisher. [↩]
- Photos 02571.jpg and 02572.jpg were assembled using Microsoft ICE (Image Composition Editor). Because of a peculiar distortion when ICE was used on all four images, photos 02498.jpg and 02573.jpg were fitted manually. Mosaic is oriented so that its north is to the top of the page. [↩]
- The files used here are 1024 KB. Downloading the files which are designated “[full size]” requires a special request form to be emailed to the Head, GDAP. [↩]
- Drawn by author with Microsoft Publisher. [↩]
