Lille

PWillettS19020057.jpg

Title

Lille

Description

Vertical aerial reconnaissance photograph of Southeast Lille, with significant areas of industrial buildings serviced with many railway lines and sidings with some domestic buildings mainly towards the top left. Agricultural land lies to the bottom right. The main works in the centre is now the Technicentre SNCF d'Hellemmes. The image is annotated with arrows showing bomb damage to buildings and railway lines. The image is also annotated 'LILLE K1469 (IMMEDIATE) Neg No 16273'. It is captioned: '5117 C/917 541 Sqdn 26.1.43 F/36"←'.

Date

1943-01-26

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Spatial Coverage

Language

Type

Format

One b/w photograph

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Rights

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Contributor

Identifier

PWillettS19020057

Collection

Citation

Great Britain. Royal Air Force, “Lille,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 14, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/50671.