File:Japanese POWs improving runway of RAF Changi in 1946.jpg

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Title: THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE FAR EAST 1945-1946

Collection No.: 4700-15

Description: Japanese prisoners of war laying some of the 11900 rolls of bituminized hessian sheeting that provided a waterproof bedding for the main runway at Changi. The runway, using 276,680 pierced steel sheets on top of the hessian, was 2000 yards in length and 50 yards wide and able to take the largest aircraft then in service with the Royal Air Force.

Date: April 1946

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Image downloaded from Imperial War Museum Collections Search: Catalogue no. CF 1165

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:03, 26 August 2013	800 × 613 (62 KB)	Dave1185 (talk \| contribs)	Updated image (800 × 613 resolution) downloaded from the collection of IWM.
	11:38, 17 May 2011	350 × 240 (26 KB)	Jncraton (talk \| contribs)	Lossless crop to remove watermark
	08:45, 6 April 2008	350 × 268 (28 KB)	Dave1185 (talk \| contribs)

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