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Caen marshalling yard
Aerial vertical photograph of a town with marshalling yard. A river/canal runs from halfway up on the left to bottom right. A railway line runs from top left into a large marshalling yard in the centre right which contains a large amount of rolling…
Caen marshalling yard
Aerial vertical photograph showing a large marshalling yard filled with rolling stock in a town. A canal/river runs up the left hand side with marshalling yard to the right. The main part of the town is to the right of the railway. A long line of…
Maassluis
Aerial vertical photograph of a town with dock basin. The river Maas runs down the left side. A canal runs from the river on left to the centre where it turns left into a doack basin surrounded by a town. A narrow canal leads from the top right…
Cherbourg Docks
Aerial inclined photograph showing docks surrounded by town. To the left open sea with beach at the top. In the centre three interconnected dock basins, the bottom left one with a divider, surrounded by dockyard buildings and installations. A series…
Cherbourg docks
Aerial vertical photograph of docks. To the bottom left open sea. In the centre two interconnected dock basins the bottom one is divided into three by cross piers. There is a further basin above and to the left. All basins are surrounded by dockyard…
Maupertus airfield Cherbourg
Aerial vertical photograph showing open countryside. A road runs from left diagonally slightly up to the right side middle. There is a junction half way along where another road leads off upward to the top. Bomb explosions are visible. Captioned…
St Omer Canal
Aerial vertical photograph of a canal and town. A canal meanders from mid left to right. There is a road bridge on the left side leading to an industrial area and town below the canal. A railway runs from just above the canal on the left to top…
Ventura over Flushing
Aerial vertical photograph of coastline with town and docks. Coastline runs from mid left to right with a broad peninsular in the centre on which is a large town with docks. There are five jetties/piers running out into the sea. There is a Ventura…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; Ventura
Dunkirk docks
Aerial vertical photograph of docks. Along the top four moles below which an interconnected water way. Below is land with a narrow water passage slanting down towards the centre bottom. The moles and land have various scattered dockyard…
Dunkirk docks
Aerial vertical photograph of docks. Three moles extend from the bottom to just over half way up. The right hand mole is covered with dockyard installations, the other two are mostly bare. Bomb impacts are visible in the water between the right hand…
Dunkirk docks
Aerial vertical photograph of interconnected dock basins. At the bottom centre an inlet slanting left. To its left a canal. To its right a spit of land with a narrow waterway leading to a large basin. To the right of the waterway a beach with…
Ventura over Dunkirk and Dunkirk docks
On the left an aerial vertical photograph of town, canal and docks. A canal zigzags from top left down, right and the left back towards dockyard in the bottom left. A town with dwellings and industrial areas lies mostly to the right of canal. The…
Tags: aerial photograph; bombing; target photograph; Ventura
Ijmuiden Holland
On the left an aerial vertical photograph of canals and locks. Multiple canal channels go from top left to bottom centre which are at the North Sea end of the Noordzeekanaal at Ijmuiden. There are various lock gates on each canal. There is a possible…
Abbeville
Aerial vertical photograph of town with canals and marshalling yard. A river/canal runs from mid left slanting down initially and then right across to the right hand side. In the middle another canal splits off upwards then goes right to middle right…
Abbeville marshalling yard
Aerial vertical photograph of a marshalling yard running from left slanting down to the right. The yard has a large number of goods wagons and locomotives spread throughout. To the top right is open countryside. There are bomb explosions at the…
Dieppe
Aerial vertical photograph of a coastal port. Coastline runs from top right to bottom left with open sea to the right. One quarter way up from left there is an inlet with breakwaters which leads into inland dock basins surrounded by a town. There are…
Le Havre and target photographs
Top left aerial vertical photograph completely filled with anti-aircraft tracer trails.
Top right an aerial vertical photograph of a canal junction. A canal runs from bottom left to a junction and then up to the top. At the junction a branch…
Top right an aerial vertical photograph of a canal junction. A canal runs from bottom left to a junction and then up to the top. At the junction a branch…
Air to ground photographs
Top left an aerial inclined photograph of open countryside. A road runs up the left hand side and below to the right are fields. There are many unidentified small black objects over the whole area. Caption 'What is it'.
Top right caption 'V =…
Top right caption 'V =…
Dunkirk, Den Helder, Vlissingen and Ventura over Ijmuiden
Top left an aerial vertical photograph of Dunkirk docks. A river runs from the sea bottom centre in a curve to top centre. Docks with moles and basins are to the right and the town is to the left of the river.
Top right an aerial vertical…
Top right an aerial vertical…
Caen-Carpiquet, Den Helder, Morlaix and unidentified canal
Top left an aerial vertical photograph of part of Caen-Carpiquet airfield. The runway runs from mid left to top right. The airfield is surrounded by a perimeter track and there is a square built up area at the bottom of the airfield.
Top right an…
Top right an…
Images of night anti-aircraft tracer and a day attack on Philips radio and valve works in Eindhoven
On the left two aerial vertical photographs showing night anti-aircraft tracer tracks. Top photograph caption 'P Z/7 75 8/9-3-42 NT f/8 TX'. Bottom photograph caption ' A F 75 NT 30/1.10.41 F/8' Page caption 'Night x Flash 70xM candle power'.
To…
To…
Operations board
Shows the operations board for an operation by two squadrons to Cologne on 31 May 1942. To the left are listed crew captains with take off and landing times. All have returned to base apart from F/O Johnson who is forth up from the bottom. On the…
Unexploded bomb in an excavation
Three views of an excavation with wooden shoring getting closer with each shot. In the first view a rope ladder is attached to the side of then laying out to the left of the drain. In the second an object can be seen at the bottom. In the third the…
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Pilot’s information chart. Berlin
Map of northern Europe annotated with route from England to Berlin and back. Contains plots, and information on target indicators dropped. Annotated 'HARDEN' and 'Wild Dick'. This item has been redacted in order to protect the privacy of the…
Tags: bombing; Pathfinders; target indicator
Pilot’s information chart. Munich
Route from England to Munich and back. Contains plots, and information on target indicators dropped. Annotated 'HARWELL'. This item has been redacted in order to protect the privacy of the lender.
Tags: bombing; Pathfinders; target indicator