Lanna-ww2

Route 0101
Station 00c^[2]

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.^[2a]

The Williams-Hunt collection has two separate sets of aerial photos for Phrae, located as shown:^[3]

In the following, aerial photos were manually joined into mosaics because Microsoft ICE (Image Composition Editor) introduced too much distortion.

Photomosaic No. 1

The area around Phrae outlined above in red was recorded in six RAF aerial photos taken on 07 March 1944:^[4]

A higher resolution image is available for download here.

The following GDAP images were used in the above photomosaic:^[5]

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and assembled approximately like this, using manual fitting:^[6]

Photomosaic No. 2

An alternate, macro, two-photo view dated 24 January 1944, as outlined in blue on the site map above, was also recorded:^[7]

A higher resolution image is available for download here.

The following GDAP images were used in the above photomosaic:

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and manually assembled approximately like this:^[8]

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

See Key for interpreting page content.

Revision list. See bottom of Text column on this page.

Bibliography supports notes.

1.^ Source: Google Earth fix on apparent center of town.

2.^ Stationing needed.

2a.^ 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.^ "Terrain" map from  Nations Online Project: Searchable Map and Satellite View of Thailand using Google Earth Data. Annotation (red & blue colored items) aligned with Adobe PhotoShop and placed with Microsoft Publisher by author.

4.^ Photos were manually assembled.

The mosaic is oriented so that its north is to the top of the page.

5.^ 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.

6.^ Drawn with Microsoft Publisher by author.

7.^ Photos were manually assembled.

The mosaic is reoriented so that its north is to the top of the page.

8.^ Drawn with Microsoft Publisher by author.