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.
- Date
- 1951
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Army, Far East Command psychological warfare
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Event
- Korean War
- Techniques
- Flooding the zone
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. Army work; Commons PD-USGov tag)
U.S. Army photograph (negative number 351772), via psywar.org; Wikimedia Commons (File:Korean War leaflet bomb.jpg).
