Reconnaissance photograph

Title

Reconnaissance photograph

Description

Vertical aerial photograph with caption '5051 60 PR 522 60 Sqd June 26 1944 1500 F6 30,000'. Main road running from bottom right hand corner diagonally to top left hand corner. Parallel, cultivated fields are on either side. One area towards bottom left of the picture has been laid out in a triangular shape. There are isolated buildings on some of the plots.

The photograph was taken by elements of the 60 Photo Reconnaissance (PR) Squadron of the South African Air Force, during over the Gleiwitz area, Poland.

Date

1944-06-26

Temporal Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Language

Type

Format

One b/w photograph

Conforms To

Rights

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Identifier

PWillettS19020054

Collection

Citation

Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Reconnaissance photograph,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 13, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/50659.