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 Uttaradit2 dated 06 April 1944 and located:3
The three-photo aerial photomosaic:4
A higher resolution image is available for download here.
The following GDAP images were used in the above photomosaic:5
and assembled approximately like this, using 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. [↩]
- N17°37.60 E100°05.80 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 so oriented 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. [↩]
