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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Rhine River"

YPearceAT1874945v5.pdf
Some personal data and a list of operations with heights. Entries for flying days, Operations January to April 1945, Mentions leave, birthdays, train times, days out, events, news of friends and acquaintances, meetings and parties, hospital…

LRossB1610215v1.pdf
Bernard Ross’ Air Gunner’s Flying Log Book covering the period from 05 of April 1943 to 22 April 1945. Detailing his flying training and operations flown as Air Gunner. He was stationed at RAF Penrhos (9 OAFU), RAF Seighford (30 OTU), RAF Thruxton…

PMcDermottC16100006.pdf
13 photographs showing bomb damage and aircraft.
Three photographs of Dortmund residential areas. Only skeletons of buildings are remaining.
Heavily bombed Krupp works
Four bombs in flight
Hamm Railway bridge. In the foreground is the destroyed…

PCavalierRG17010016.jpg
Photographs 1, 3 and 5 show damage to buildings on the riverside.
Photograph 2 is a low level oblique photograph of Cologne, with bomb damaged Hohenzollern Bridge.
Photograph 4 is a low level oblique photograph of Wesel with bomb damaged…

PCavalierRG17010015.jpg
Photograph 1 is a street scene of damaged building with a girl cycling. Captioned 'Krefield, [sic] Germany 5 Aug 1945.'
Photograph 2 is a low level oblique photograph of a badly damaged city. In the distance are port cranes.
Photograph 3 and 5 are…

PFordTA17030011.jpg
A vertical aerial photograph of Bonn during an operation. The river Rhine is seen through the centre of the image. There are bomb explosions along the river with some cloud and shadow nearby. The majority is very clear, detailing the Kennedy bridge…

PHolmanAW1912.jpg
An oblique aerial photograph of a bomb damaged road bridge over the Rhine. The spans lie in the river with the larger arch girder span towards the bottom of the photograph. The supporting tower in mid stream is also severely damaged. Damaged and…

PCornwellSmithJC25030022.jpg
A man in uniform, holding a clipboard, stands next to a wall map showing a target area over the Rhine. Reverse printed, 'A.M. Crown copyright reserved' and annotated, 'R136C'.

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PGrundyAF15020005.jpg
Top left - a coxed four rowing boat alongside a jetty in river. Far back is tree lined. Top middle - three men in coats and hats sitting on the deck of a ship. Top right- taken from rear of a rowing boat looking up a rivers with four men in sitting…

PBanksP15010021.jpg
Aerial inclined photograph of the city of Cologne looking north. The river Rhine goes from left to right with one large meander. Three bridges cross the river as to turns back to the right. The furthest bridge is destroyed with the right hand two…

PWatsonJR1802.pdf
Target photograph of Cologne orientated with North to the bottom left. The railway complex Koln-Neustadt-Nord is in the bottom left corner and the square outline of the lake known as Aachener Weiher is in the bottom right. The River Rhine and…

PPalmerRAM17010027.jpg
Right - a man wearing brown overcoat standing on rod by the side of a river with city on far side. Right - view across river of distant Cologne cathedral. Captioned 'Daddy's visit to Cologne in December 1994. View across the Rhine to Gremburg (the…

PWyldeHJ22010017.jpg
A target photograph taken on an operation at Cologne-Kalk. Bombs can be seen falling in lower right quadrant. Smoke is being emitted from near river bank top left. The River Rhine forms a curve from centre bottom to top left corner. Two bridges are…

PShepherdGC18020005.jpg
Target photograph of city with river running bottom left to centre. Bombs exploding centre and bottom right. Captioned 'Cologne'.

PShepherdGC18020007.jpg
Target photograph showing city with river running left to right and flare in bottom left. Captioned 'Cologne'.

PShepherdGC18020012.jpg
Target photograph with city below, river top left, bomb explosions top left. Captioned 'Cologne'.

SBondS-DidwellNv10001-00150048.jpg
Target photograph of the Mülheim district of Cologne showing bomb explosions in town on banks of Rhine river. The Mülheim Bridge is partially visible.

Identification kindly provided by Michael B. Sumner

PWrightJ1535.jpg
Aerial oblique of Cologne with the cathedral in the centre. Behind is the Rhine and a destroyed bridge. Many of the buildings are damaged. Captioned 'Cologne "The Rhine Crossing" 1945'.

PCavalierRG17010014.jpg
Photograph 1 is a low level oblique photograph of the cathedral.
Photograph 2 is a low level oblique photograph of a church, a bridge and the river Rhine.
Photograph 3 and 5 are low level oblique photographs of the main railway station.
Photograph…

PThompsonKG15010088.jpg
Aerial photographs taken from directly above showing damaged buildings, the railway station, rail bridge over the Rhine and the cathedral. Captioned 'Cologne, AMPS/767/92 4-7-43'.

PWalkerS17010008.jpg
Three photographs of Cologne Cathedral and damaged bridge over the Rhine.

PEleyNJ1617.jpg
An oblique aerial photograph of Cologne, showing destroyed bridges, submitted with caption; “Damage to bridges over the Rhine.”

PArthurEG1623.jpg
Shows bomb damage of area around the cathedral, railway station and bridge over the Rhine. The photograph taken from a 627 Squadron Mosquito.

Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.

PHolmanAW19010012.jpg
Two low level aerial oblique views of Cologne cathedral. They show much damage to the area due to bombing.

PBanksP15010020.jpg
Oblique aerial photograph of the Hohenzollern bridge over the Rhine at Cologne. The river Rhine runs from left diagonally to the right, On the far bank a narrow parallel canal, the Rheinauhafen, beyond which is a city landscape of multistory…
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