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WW2 aerial pictures go online
Press Association
Saturday January 17, 2004 1:08 AM
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-3634184,00.html)
Unique aerial photographs of the some of the key events of the Second World War are to be made available for the first time over the internet.
The entire archive of more than five million aerial reconnaissance photographs, shot by the RAF over Western Europe during the conflict, is going online from Monday.
They include American troops landing on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, the seizure of the Pegasus bridge by British paratroops, the aftermath of the first 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne, and the German battleship Bismarck as the Royal Navy hunted her down.
There is also a photograph showing thick clouds of smoke pouring from Auschwitz concentration camp during the final months of the war.
It was taken at a time when the number of prisoners being killed was so high, the crematoria were unable to cope and the bodies had to be burned in mass pits. The images are so detailed that the prisoners in the camp can be seen standing for the roll-call.
The photographs are being made available through a website created by The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives (TARA) at Keele University - an official place of deposit for the National Archives at Kew, west London.
They were transferred to Keele in 1962 from the Allied Central Interpretation Unit at Medmenham, Bucks., where wartime analysts studied the material collected by the RAF reconnaissance crews.
The multiple photographs taken by the high resolution cameras meant they were able to create 3-D images through an instrument called a "stereoscope".
The technique was used to construct a detailed picture of the Normandy terrain ahead of the D-Day landings.
Link to photos: http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/
(Note: Due to heavy load, the site may take some time to load...)
Press Association
Saturday January 17, 2004 1:08 AM
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-3634184,00.html)
Unique aerial photographs of the some of the key events of the Second World War are to be made available for the first time over the internet.
The entire archive of more than five million aerial reconnaissance photographs, shot by the RAF over Western Europe during the conflict, is going online from Monday.
They include American troops landing on the Normandy beaches on D-Day, the seizure of the Pegasus bridge by British paratroops, the aftermath of the first 1,000 bomber raid on Cologne, and the German battleship Bismarck as the Royal Navy hunted her down.
There is also a photograph showing thick clouds of smoke pouring from Auschwitz concentration camp during the final months of the war.
It was taken at a time when the number of prisoners being killed was so high, the crematoria were unable to cope and the bodies had to be burned in mass pits. The images are so detailed that the prisoners in the camp can be seen standing for the roll-call.
The photographs are being made available through a website created by The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives (TARA) at Keele University - an official place of deposit for the National Archives at Kew, west London.
They were transferred to Keele in 1962 from the Allied Central Interpretation Unit at Medmenham, Bucks., where wartime analysts studied the material collected by the RAF reconnaissance crews.
The multiple photographs taken by the high resolution cameras meant they were able to create 3-D images through an instrument called a "stereoscope".
The technique was used to construct a detailed picture of the Normandy terrain ahead of the D-Day landings.
Link to photos: http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/
(Note: Due to heavy load, the site may take some time to load...)
