The Archive · 1937

The Wrecked Aerodrome

Journey's end came at the ruins.of the Hungjao aerodrome. Bombs had collapsed the office quarters like a pack of cards. Only the observation roof had escaped. The blast had lifted it bodily and then it had fallen intact upon the ruins of the rest of the building. A bomb had blown the roof of the huge hangar sky high. Only a mere shell of the big stone-built assembly structure remained. Nearby were the three-bladed propellers and the wings of a big bomber which the guides declared was the one from which dropped the bombs of August 14. Then it was disabled and forced down at Hungjao ahd the Japanese stated that it was subsequently bombed. The wreckage (Continued on page 6)

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