Colombes

Colombes

Vertical aerial photograph of Colombes, France. The image is largely clear, only a few lines of tracer are visible with street patterns and buildings clearly visible. Bottom left a large stadium is partly visible. Annotated on the image is a north arrow and ‘3/4 mile south of target’. Captioned ‘3. O (X4) 12 NT 29/30/4/42 F/8” [arrow] TX’.

Additional identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder and Matthias Cantow of the Finding the location WW1 & WW2 Facebook group.

1942-04-29

1942-04-30

One b/w photograph

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