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- Collection: Banks, Peter. Album 1
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1st Exp Kodacolor
Two images showing indecipherable features. Caption on first '1st Exp Kodacolor'. One is of a bomb dump.
37 Squadron Wellingtons
Top air-to-air view of two Wellingtons in silhouette one below the other flying right to left. Clouds below.
Middle an air-to-air view of a Wellington D-LF N2992 showing ventral dustbin turret, with open countryside below.
Bottom an air-to-air…
Middle an air-to-air view of a Wellington D-LF N2992 showing ventral dustbin turret, with open countryside below.
Bottom an air-to-air…
464 Squadron personnel in front of Ventura
Approximately 100 personnel in four rows in front of a Ventura. Most of the front row are officers wearing peaked caps. The remaining rows are mostly airmen. In the background an open grass area with a church on the horizon on the left. Captioned…
487 Squadron personnel in front of Ventura
Approximately 100 personnel in three rows sitting and standing in front of a Ventura. Personnel towards the centre of the front row are wearing officers peaked caps. The remainder are airmen wearing side caps. In the background two hangars, the…
Aachen
Oblique aerial photograph of Aachen. The Stadtpark is in the foreground and the circular Roland Plasse in the bottom right. The Cathedral is centre right. A third of the way up a tree line boulevard runs from left to right with some large detached…
Aachen
Oblique aerial photograph of the town of Aachen with a large number of multistory buildings, the majority of which are damaged and without roofs. A railway runs from top left to centre top with some wagons on the left end, Two streets run slightly…
Abbeville
Aerial vertical photograph of town with canals and marshalling yard. A river/canal runs from mid left slanting down initially and then right across to the right hand side. In the middle another canal splits off upwards then goes right to middle right…
Abbeville marshalling yard
Aerial vertical photograph of a marshalling yard running from left slanting down to the right. The yard has a large number of goods wagons and locomotives spread throughout. To the top right is open countryside. There are bomb explosions at the…
Air to ground photographs
Top left an aerial inclined photograph of open countryside. A road runs up the left hand side and below to the right are fields. There are many unidentified small black objects over the whole area. Caption 'What is it'.
Top right caption 'V =…
Top right caption 'V =…
Aircraft in formation
Ground to air photograph of 30 aircraft flying in 10 vics from bottom left to top right.
Album cover
Dark orange album cover with Royal Air Force motto, Pilots Wings, intertwined initial with J and H inside a B and dates.
Antwerp
Oblique aerial photograph of Antwerp. The river Scheldt runs from left to right. On the far bank on the right there is a small built up area and a straight road runs from there into the distance. On the near bank a city with many multi storey…
Antwerp Docks
Oblique aerial photograph of Antwerp docks with the river Scheldte running from middle left to right. On the far bank are town buildings. In the distance open countryside on both banks. In the centre a canal leads from the river inland leading to…
Antwerp Docks
The river Scheldt runs from top left to right with town buildings on the far bank on the left and open country beyond. In the centre on the near bank a waterway with a barrier at the top leads from the river into a series of interconnected water…
Baedeker Bus Feltwell
Lancaster at very low level with undercarriage down over grass airfield with row of trees on horizon. Captioned 'Baedecker Bus Feltwell, 14 June 45'.
Label below has swastikas at top left and right and text 'V-E +, Sept 3rd 1939 to May 8th 1945'.
Label below has swastikas at top left and right and text 'V-E +, Sept 3rd 1939 to May 8th 1945'.
Boston crash after hit by anti-aircraft fire
On the first page an air to air view through the rear mirror of a third aircraft of two Bostons at very low level. The Boston on the right is trailing smoke and heading towards the ground. In the background a tilted horizon with bomb explosions. In…
Boulogne marshaling yards
Aerial vertical photograph showing railway running from left to right with a large marshalling yard in the centre. A small river wanders along the bottom of the railway from left to right. Above the marshalling yard are long buildings with possible…
Bremen
On the left an aerial inclined photograph of a city on the left bank of a river. At the bottom left a park with trees and lakes. To the right of the park a road curves around a large built up area with a twin spire church at its centre. There is a…
Brest
Reconnaissance photograph of a port city with sea to the right and a river running centre right to left. Docks above and below river mouth. Photograph caption '622 W/642. I.P.R.U. 27.5.41. F/20:R↑'. Page caption 'Brest'.
Caen Carpiquet airfield
Two side by side vertical photographs of Caen Carpiquet Airfield.
On the left a reconnaissance photograph orientated with east at the top. On the left side of the airfield with a single runway 13/31 running from bottom left towards the centre. A…
On the left a reconnaissance photograph orientated with east at the top. On the left side of the airfield with a single runway 13/31 running from bottom left towards the centre. A…
Caen marshalling yard
Aerial vertical photograph of a town with marshalling yard. A river/canal runs from halfway up on the left to bottom right. A railway line runs from top left into a large marshalling yard in the centre right which contains a large amount of rolling…
Caen marshalling yard
Aerial vertical photograph showing a large marshalling yard filled with rolling stock in a town. A canal/river runs up the left hand side with marshalling yard to the right. The main part of the town is to the right of the railway. A long line of…
Caen-Carpiquet Airfield
Aerial vertical photograph of an airfield. Airfield fills left hand side with runway 13/31 running from bottom to top and a perimeter track running all the way round. The is a square section of buildings off the top left of the airfield and a series…
Caen-Carpiquet Airfield
Aerial vertical photograph showing an airfield. Airfield fills left two thirds with runway running vertically up. Runway 31 is at the bottom with a square area of buildings just outside the perimeter track to the right. There is are complex of…
Caen-Carpiquet, Den Helder, Morlaix and unidentified canal
Top left an aerial vertical photograph of part of Caen-Carpiquet airfield. The runway runs from mid left to top right. The airfield is surrounded by a perimeter track and there is a square built up area at the bottom of the airfield.
Top right an…
Top right an…