wilbur dixon became a photographer --elmer dixson became a photographer. they made him a photographer during the war. he was in the pacific, where he took photographs of a numerous different targets from the air. they made h.a.m. the repository for all of the artifacts. we are in the room with the more memorable things he has given us. we have two of his cameras, era cameras. the room is popular, because people like to see something from local people in our museums. before you bomb a target, you need to know what it looks like from the air. you need to know where you want to place the bomb. they had to go in. before world war ii, we didn't have aerial photographers likely to today -- aerial photography like we do today. different send airplanes to take aerial photography of different cities and installations. they would review them and look at what was important to be bombed and what was not. that is why aerial photography took off. his job was very vital. 2 items that we have, which includes 4 pictures of pre-and post strikes from the air of hiroshima and