Someone was asking about this a while back, I couldn't find all the pages but it's interesting. What we would know of as the Coca Cola Factory on NR5 was a major target and the dome of Psah Thmey was badly damaged. The Allied bombing of Phnom Penh and Saigon seems consigned to be one of those footnotes in history.
WWII Allied Indochina Targets
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Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
There was an air raid on PP in early 1945, hit Wat Ounalom and killed a load of monks and some civilians IRRC.
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It's hard to find much on it but I came up with this:
https://english.cambodiadaily.com/news/ ... mily-1173/Guy Le Rumeur’s photos of Cambodia in the 1940s speak of a French family’s peaceful life in the country-relaxing on the beach in Kep, touring Angkor on an elephant and staying in traditional stilt houses in the countryside.
But one of his daughter’s memories of Phnom Penh is of her mother lifting the corner of a sheet covering bodies, trying to find the corpse of a Cambodian friend after a bombing raid by allied forces near Phsar Thmei in February 1945.
The Chinese neighborhood where textile factories were located had been bombarded from the air, Le Rumeur’s daughter Chris Dityvon recalled.
“There were at least 200 injured and more than 200 dead,” she said. Her parents would later adopt their Cambodian friend’s daughter, Meas Yenn.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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This is a good read on the topic too:
https://english.cambodiadaily.com/news/ ... ied-85793/
Motivated Misfit
George Groslier was a prominent figure in Cambodia. He not only built and managed the National Museum, but also set up the Ecole des Arts Cambodgiens —today’s Royal University of Fine Arts—to teach Cambodian traditional art forms.
An artist by training who was born in Cambodia in 1887, he did not really fit in the French colonial establishment, said Kent Davis, who published the first biography of George Groslier in 2010.
“Groslier was a very unusual colonial Frenchman,” said Mr. Davis. “He was not motivated by money. He was not motivated by fame, he was not motivated by political power. And he had an incredible respect for the people among whom he was living in Cambodia.
https://english.cambodiadaily.com/news/ ... ied-85793/
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