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Dortmund Ems Canal embankment at Ladbergen
Reconnaissance photo of the Dortmund Ems Canal at Ladbergen showing canal running bottom left to middle right. Submitted with the caption 'Reconnaissance photo of the Dortmund Ems Canal at Ladbergen, dated 2 October 1944, taken by an aircraft of 542…
Dortmund Ems Canal embankment at Ladbergen
Reconnaissance photo of the Dortmund Ems Canal embankment at Ladbergen, showing canal, at bottom. Submitted with caption 'Reconnaissance photo of the Dortmund Ems Canal embankment at Ladbergen, dated 3 February 1945, taken by an aircraft of 542 Sqn'.
Watten
Reconnaissance photo of Watten showing opne countryside with equipment piles and concrete building. Submitted with caption 'Reconnaissance photo of Watten, dated 25 July 1945, taken by an aircraft of 542 Sqn'.
Mittelland Canal at Gravenhorst
Reconnaissance photo of the Mittelland Canal at Gravenhorst showing canal left to right with many bomb craters. Submitted with caption 'Reconnaissance photo of the Mittelland Canal at Gravenhorst, dated 3 February 1945, taken by an aircraft of 542…
Eindhoven airfield
Reconnaissance photo of Eindhoven airfield showing runways and many bomb craters. Submitted with caption 'Reconnaissance photo of Eindhoven airfield, dated 15 August 1944, taken by an aircraft of 542 Sqn'.
Dortmund-Ems Canal
Reconnaissance photograph showing a four canal junction with bomb craters. Submitted with caption 'Reconnaissance photo of the Dortmund Ems Canal at Datteln, dated 15 March 1945. taken by an aircraft of 542 Sqn'.
Dunkirk
Two aerial reconnaissance photographs. The first print has the caption '2004 D/30 542 Sqdn 15.2.43 F/20' and is annotated with 'Bomb plot (b) SA223 13.2.43 Dunkirk Neg No 19347' and numerous white dots towards the bottom of the print. The beach…
Eder Dam
Vertical aerial photograph with two images of the Eder Dam captioned 'Photographs of the Eder Dam taken on 18th May 1943, thirty hours after the attack by 617 sqdn. Taken by F/O D G Scott in Spitfire PRX1 serial EN411 of 542 sqdn. (double photo…
Fröndenberg
Vertical reconnaissance photograph of flooding following Operation Chastise. Captioned 'Frodenberg [Fröndenberg] 13 miles down stream from the Mohne Dam showing the flood water after the Dambuster raid on on 16th 17th May 1943 photo taken by F/O F…
V 1 Site at Vignacourt
A vertical aerial photograph of a V1 site at Vignacourt near Amiens. The V1 launching ramp can be seen amongst an orchard in the top right. Rough vehicle tracks leading to the site from the road are visible. The village is to the left with open…
Heligoland
Photograph shows coastline with fires burning, captioned 'Heligoland K4298, Dist 23c' including directional arrow. Caption at top of photograph: '4008 106G.5377.18.APR.45.F/36"//542 SQDN→ 4'. Caption in right hand bottom corner of photograph:…
Vaires marshalling yard
Photograph of a marshalling yard. Inverted caption: 'VAIRES M/Y Near Paris Imm Report K2665' includes directional arrow pointing north. Caption at top of photograph: '4063 106G.1316.8.JULY.44. F/36"//542SQDN←'.
Interview with Jack Harris. Three
Jack Harris resumes describing his post-war career in the Royal Air Force. In October 1955, he became the commanding officer of 542 Squadron, a special duties squadron responsible for sampling radioactive fallout produced by American and Soviet atom…
Coastline
Target photograph of an unidentified target, coastline and built-up area. Captioned '3026 D/490.542 SQDN 4 May 43 F/20→'.