Eder Dam
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'.
[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
Type
Format
One b/w photograph
Conforms To
Publisher
Rights
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Identifier
PCruickshankG1501-0008, PCruickshankG1501-0009
Collection
Citation
“Eder Dam,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 19, 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 |