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title: Loading a leaflet bomb at the Far East Command printing plant, Yokohama
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/fec-leaflet-bomb-yokohama-photo-1951/
description: A U.S. Army photograph of a sergeant loading an M16A1 cluster adapter at the Far East Command printing plant in Yokohama, Japan.
section: Collection
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# Loading a leaflet bomb at the Far East Command printing plant, Yokohama

A U.S. Army photograph of a sergeant loading an M16A1 cluster adapter at the Far East Command printing plant in Yokohama, Japan. The adapter, opened like a clamshell, holds stacked paper-banded rolls of 5 by 8 inch leaflets; the caption on record says one bomb carries 22,500. The tell: the object is the delivery system, showing leaflets distributed by volume from the air rather than any single message.

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