Japanese Ordnance Plants, Storage, Equipment Part 2

Description

LS Showing the torpedo plant as seen when looking E. The torpedo plant is located in the extreme southern end of the arsenal. The main horizontal roof members of this structure as well as its supporting horizontal members were of steel. The vertical columns were made of wood. The roof was corrugated metal. This entire plant was gutted by fire. This plant, although as large, the striking is similar to Urakami Ordnance Works in Nagasaki. Series of quick cuts showing the damage inflicted upon heavy ordnance equipment which was used in the construction of torpedoes, showing the thoroughness of its destruction by secondary fires following the attack of 500 lb GP bomb .1 nose and .1 tail delay. LS Looking E along the collapsed main roof members resting on heavy ordnance machinery. CU Precision boring machine, showing the damage effect of fire especially on the electrical wiring, also the subsequent effect of weather. MCU Showing a vertical milling machine stopped in the process of operation as result of the attack. A series of three shots showing the main control panel of the ordnance plant which has been destroyed by fire. MS Boiler house located just N of the ordnance plant which has been seriously damaged by a near miss of a 500 lb GP bomb fused .1 nose and .01 tail delay. The distance between the center of the crater and the nearest wall is approx. 18'. MCU Pan of boiler house area looking NW. CU Of blast effect on the brick wall of the boiler plant, showing the manner in which the walls have failed. LS Showing the remains of the building housing hydraulic pressure. Just N of the torpedo works which was destroyed by fire. In the foreground and background can be seen rows of electric furnaces, hydraulic pressures and press boosters. MLS Looking S showing direction on heat-treating ovens, with a 500 lb GP bomb fused .1 nose and .01 tail delay. To the R of this destroyed oven is an oven which had been decommissioned by the blast effect of the bomb. MLS Showing the destruction of hydraulic compression chambers as a result of fragmentation. MLS S wall of a power sub-station centrally located on the W side of main N-2 road which bisects the plant, which was housed in a two-story reinforced concrete structure with a 1-1/2" reinforced concrete wall and a 10-1/2" reinforced concrete roof. This view shows the effect of a neat miss with a 500 lb GP bomb fused .1 nose and .01 tail delay, on the walls and heavy generating equipment within the building. (Vertical columns 19 in sq walls were reinforced iron 6" apart.) MS Effects of a direct hit on reinforced concrete wall. LS Panning NW to N showing neat rows of Koriyu type submarines (2-man midget sub) lying on the bottom of the dry dock at Kure Naval Base. LS Panning up to a general view of the dry dock looking NE showing neat rows of 2-man subs. There were over 113 subs in this dry dock. MS Panning up looking SW across the line of submarines from the top of the dock. LS Panning up looking NW showing the subs. LS Looking NW showing the bow and port side of the Japanese Aircraft Carrier "Ryuho", which is in dry dock No. 4 to be converted into scrap. LS Looking NW showing the aircraft carrier and a dry dock crane which is on the left side. MLS Panning NW to N showing the port side and bow of carrier. Pan shot to the Japanese anti-aircraft gun-carrying destroyer "Yoizuki" which had been moved alongside the aircraft carrier "Ryuho" for conversion into a repatriation ship with a capacity of 1300. MS Looking N showing the bow and port side of the destroyer "Yoizuki". MS Panning N to NW showing the bow and port side of the carrier "Ryuho". MS Super -structure (port side) of carrier "Ryuho". LS Looking W showing the Japanese destroyer "Natsuzuki" coming into dry dock after an extensive tour of repatriation service and now in for repairs. LS Pan looking N at building Z of Kure Naval Base Arsenal, showing a smokestack and hole near its base, approx. 5 feet in diameter; also the damaged flue leading from the boiler to the smokestack which was caused by a near miss, ending at the crater. MLS Inside of building Z of Kure Naval Arsenal showing one of the boilers in plant which had taken a direct hit. This boiler generated steam which operated the heavy rolling mill in the armor plate plant. MLS Looking NE showing 2 direct hits on the SW end of building X which is the steel plate-shaping shop at Kure Naval Arsenal. View was taken from second floor of the steel test laboratory of the arsenal at Kure. (Note the twisted steel frames and the extent of bomb craters shown in the pan shot). MLS of concrete block which served as a foundation base for a steel frame column of the plant. The steel frame and its concrete base were hurled to the roof by the blast. CU Crater as seen from ground, looking N. MCU Panning up looking E showing a large crater in the SW section of the plate-shaping shop at Kure Naval Arsenal, and the motor generator set which is almost buried in sand due to the detonation of the bomb. LS Panning N to NW showing the battered NE and SW face of building W, located in the Kure Naval Arsenal, showing a two-story reinforced concrete building and its wooden roof which served as a steel test laboratory. MLS Looking N showing the SW face of building W with its steel frame windows dangling due to the blast. MLS Looking N showing the interior of building Y located in the Kure Naval Arsenal, in far background is an overhead crane with right end fallen down due to a near miss on the steel frame column which supported to crane rail. MLS Panning N to NE showing the NW end of the overhead crane which still stands on the rail. Pan down crane to the SE end which has collapsed and is now resting on the floor. LS Panning N to NE showing the NW end of an overhead traveling crane still on the rail, panning down along the SE end of this crane which had dropped to the floor. MLS Panning down looking NW showing the SE end of the overhead crane then the crater which caused the crane to fall. LS Looking NE showing the fallen overhead crane in the background and the unfinished gun barrels for a second-class cruiser. CU Looking NE showing the gun barrel. LS Looking N showing a heavy traveling bridge type crane for loading and unloading coal, which received a direct hit in the middle section and SW end. The SW carriage and wheels are sticking up in mid-air. (Note the coal pile is still burning since the air raid.) (Slight edge fog). LS Looking NE showing the SW face of a set of gas producers which received a direct hit. This unit served fuel for the heating furnace of the armor plate rolling mill. LS Same as above. MS Panning SE by E showing the SW face of the gas producing plant and SW face of the armor plate rolling mill which received a direct hit on its steel structure. Note large crate in foreground. MS Same as above. LS Panning E to SE showing the SW face of the gas producer. Panning to the SW and S face of the armor plate mill and onto the SW and S face of the gun barrel heating and tempering plant. Note the reinforced concrete power substation in the foreground. LS Panning SE to E, same as above.

Collection

Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities