Bordeaux and Lancasters bombing
Title
Bordeaux and Lancasters bombing
Description
Top - target photograph showing Bordeaux with Garonne river top right. Captioned '2005 METH 11.8.44//8". 18,000" 010 degrees, `16.33, BORDEAUX E. 6x2000. C. 36 sec. F/O MEREDITH E/106'. Submitted with description 'Target photo of Bordeaux on 11th Aug 1944, taken from Lancaster PB248, ZN-E. Captain: F/O D W Meredith (RCAF)'.
Bottom air-to-air photograph of a Lancaster on the right dropping bombs. In the distance lower left another Lancaster. Submitted with description 'Photo showing two unidentified Lancasters on bombing run, the closer aircraft releasing bombs'.
Bottom air-to-air photograph of a Lancaster on the right dropping bombs. In the distance lower left another Lancaster. Submitted with description 'Photo showing two unidentified Lancasters on bombing run, the closer aircraft releasing bombs'.
Date
1944-08-11
Temporal Coverage
Type
Format
Two b/w photographs mounted on an album page
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Publisher
Rights
This content is property of the Royal Air Force Metheringham Airfield Visitor Centre 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.
Identifier
PFOMetheringhamAF19040026
Collection
Citation
“Bordeaux and Lancasters bombing,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 9, 2023, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/31268.
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