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Kai Tak wartime Japanese control tower location-1945

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2018-03-02 18:08
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Old correspondence that has recently surfaced in my files gives a clue as the where the Japanese had their control tower during the war years.

Close study the available pictures of the airfield immediately after the war appear to show only one possible building.

Has anyone seen ground level images of the area where the identified building is situated?

Kentwell L. K.-January 1942

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2013-05-24 21:26
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1942

Who was L.K. Kentwell that made the Japanese approach him to lead a puppet government in Hong Kong? Highlighted in above 1942 newsprint

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