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Cologne in ruins
Oblique aerial photograph of Köln cathedral and surrounding area all showing heavy bomb damage. Photograph is looking west with railway station in the right hand corner.
Route to the Ruhr via France, Belgium and Holland
Map showing route in black with red direction arrows from a base near Ely via Dunkirk, through Belgium to Maastricht, Aachen, Cologne, to the east of the Dortmund in the Ruhr and then return via Holland. Label 'Map of route, France, Belgium, Germany…
Baedeker Bus Feltwell
Lancaster at very low level with undercarriage down over grass airfield with row of trees on horizon. Captioned 'Baedecker Bus Feltwell, 14 June 45'.
Label below has swastikas at top left and right and text 'V-E +, Sept 3rd 1939 to May 8th 1945'.
Label below has swastikas at top left and right and text 'V-E +, Sept 3rd 1939 to May 8th 1945'.
Aachen
Oblique aerial photograph of Aachen. The Stadtpark is in the foreground and the circular Roland Plasse in the bottom right. The Cathedral is centre right. A third of the way up a tree line boulevard runs from left to right with some large detached…
Aachen
Oblique aerial photograph of the town of Aachen with a large number of multistory buildings, the majority of which are damaged and without roofs. A railway runs from top left to centre top with some wagons on the left end, Two streets run slightly…
Düren
Oblique aerial photograph of Duren railway station and railway yards. In the centre a railway marshalling yard with multiple tracks towards the left side with many strings of railway rolling stock. In the centre slightly right is the main station…
Düren
Oblique aerial photograph of Duren. A city landscape of largely destroyed buildings. A principle road runs from bottom left diagonally to top right. Another curved road runs from bottom left to the right side where it joins a further road running…
Düren
Oblique aerial photograph of destroyed city landscape with some standing multistory buildings, but primarily large areas reduced to rubble. A road runs from bottom right diagonally to centre left. Another runs from bottom left to middle right. Where…
Cologne Cathedral
Aerial inclined photograph of Cologne Cathedral looking south. At the bottom left is part of the roof of the railway station. In the foreground a small open area with a tram in the centre. The cathedral is surrounded on all sides by multistory…
Cologne Hohenzollern bridge
Oblique aerial photograph of the Hohenzollern bridge over the Rhine at Cologne. The river Rhine runs from left diagonally to the right, On the far bank a narrow parallel canal, the Rheinauhafen, beyond which is a city landscape of multistory…
Cologne
Aerial inclined photograph of the city of Cologne looking north. The river Rhine goes from left to right with one large meander. Three bridges cross the river as to turns back to the right. The furthest bridge is destroyed with the right hand two…
Wuppertal
Oblique aerial photograph of city landscape with multistory buildings and roads. The Wuppertal suspension railway follows the course of the Wupper river from lower right. A railway runs from top left in a slight curve to right middle keeping to the…
Wuppertal suspension railway
Oblique aerial photograph of Wuppertal with the suspension railway above and following the course of the river Wupper. The suspension railway runs from bottom left to top right. Above the river is a built up area amongst wooded hillside with open…
Mohne Dam
Oblique aerial photograph with Mohne Dam in the centre. Beyond is the Mohnesee and the Delecker Bridge crossing left to right with multiple piers. There are forests areas on the left side of the Mohnesee and in the foreground centre. At the bottom…
Mohne Dam
Oblique aerial photograph showing the southern two thirds of the Mohne Dam at the bottom left. On the near side of the spillway are two houses below a tree line bank. Beyond the dam is part of the Mohnesee surrounded by a mixture of open farmland and…
Marshaling Yards at Hamm
Aerial inclined photograph showing a large number of railway sidings running from left to right. At the bottom left is a railway turntable with a large number of tracks spreading out towards a large building on the right hand side with part of its…
Marshalling Yards at Hamm
Aerial inclined photograph showing railway sidings running diagonally from left to right with a large number of interspersed bomb craters. Around the craters in the bottom left quadrant the railway tracks have been twisted and broken. Three lines of…
Hamm
Aerial inclined photograph showing city landscape in the lower two thirds with open country beyond. In the foreground a square grid of roads surrounded by multistory buildings. Many buildings are damaged or without roofs and a large number have been…
Dortmund
Aerial inclined photograph showing a snow covered city landscape with multistory buildings. A road leads from bottom centre towards the top left with another road joining it leading off towards the top right. In the foreground are a number of…
Dortmund
Aerial inclined photograph showing a factory complex surrounded at the top with multistory town buildings and to the left by gardens/allotments. In the centre a large factory complex with long buildings running diagonally right to left and above them…
Essen
Aerial inclined photograph showing snow covered, mostly industrial landscape. In the foreground multistory town buildings with some showing signs of damage. One quarter way up, just left of centre is a church with damaged tower and roof. Beyond this…
Krupps at Essen
Aerial inclined photograph showing a large industrial area with destroyed roofs. Five long industrial buildings orientated diagonally from left down to right with roofs totally destroyed. In the centre at the is a large crater surrounded by buckled…
Essen
Aerial inclined photograph showing industrial buildings in a city landscape. At the bottom long factory buildings go from left to right with areas of damaged roofs on the nearside. Above this area another damaged industrial complex is orientated…
Wesel
Aerial inclined photograph showing a town with almost all buildings damaged or completely destroyed. In the foreground parkland with trees and a few scattered damaged buildings. There are a number of bomb craters visible. In the centre the main part…