Eder Dam

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Title

Eder Dam

Description

Reconnaissance photograph showing lake on left with breached dam half way up on left. Farmland fields top right. Captioned between page 47-48 of 1956 Memoir '[heading] 617 Squadron [/heading]
[caption - written vertically on LHS of page presumably for landscape orientation of photo] 'Elder [sic] Dam The south-east end of the storage lake with the dam breached between the two valve houses at a point about 400 ft from its western end. Water is still pouring through the gap flowing fast downstream towards Kassel'. On the reverse 'Eder Dam, CH.9750'.

Date

1943-05

Temporal Coverage

Type

Format

One b/w photograph

Conforms To

Rights

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Identifier

PCruickshankG1501-0008, PCruickshankG1501-0009

Collection

Citation

“Eder Dam,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 12, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/17721.

Item Relations

This Item dcterms:relation Item: Memoir Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cruickshank D.F.M. RAFRO
Item: Damage descriptions for post operation photographs dcterms:relation This Item