Saumur tunnel

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Title

Saumur tunnel

Description

Target photograph shows open countryside. Railway line runs from top centre to middle right, with one leading the Saumur tunnel. Caption '101, W.W., 8/9.6.44, NT8", 324, 0230, Special Target, T, 1 x 14000, 15 secs, F/O Willsher, T, 617'. On the reverse '51:92/12'.

Additional information kindly provided by Andrew Gordon, Justin Wescombe and Frank Schilder of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook Group.

Date

1944-06-09

Temporal Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Type

Format

One b/w photograph

Conforms To

Rights

This content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.

Contributor

Identifier

MCheshireGL72021-181210-010027, MCheshireGL72021-181210-010028

Collection

Citation

“Saumur tunnel,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/16502.

Item Relations

This Item dcterms:relation Item: Royal Air Force file cover - Saumur 8/9 June