Goes nicely hand in hand with the Evidence in Camera site. (some interesting links on there, holocaust related aerial reconnaissance stuff in particular.) Edit: sorry, simultaneously cross-posted the very same site as Kyt.
Great site PC. Here's another: The Aerial Reconnaisance Archives Ahh, Keele Uni in Staffordshire. And don't they make you pay for copies. I understand they also hold all of the Luftwaffe PRU photos taken of Britain during the war. If any of you watch programmes such as Time Team, when they have aerial photos for crop marks, this is where they invariably come from. Nearly all aerial photos used by archeaologists are from the RAF survey of Britain in 1947 (?). Apparently the conditions were ideal most of the year and the mapping was so detailed.
Found this to be an interesting site. AirRecce - Examples of Military Photo-Reconnaissance Sorry I have been away for a bit, well in fact it's beena couple of years I think. I hope you like my site, still working on it, I have a vast collection of data to upload, it's just getting the time to do, but it will be done in the end. B)
Ahh, Keele Uni in Staffordshire. And don't they make you pay for copies. I understand they also hold all of the Luftwaffe PRU photos taken of Britain during the war. If any of you watch programmes such as Time Team, when they have aerial photos for crop marks, this is where they invariably come from. Nearly all aerial photos used by archeaologists are from the RAF survey of Britain in 1947 (?). Apparently the conditions were ideal most of the year and the mapping was so detailed. Just for an update on the Keele archive, Its moved. All the archive now has been placed into temp storage. The plan is a new building to house the collection is to be built in Scotland. More details can be found at: Aerial Reconnaissance Archives A bit of added info, a number of years ago I use to be part of the team that controlled the RAF film archive (well over 120,000 tins of film) and over a period of I think four months, we moved over 60,000 tins of imagery to Keele, these ranged from dates of 1940's to the 70's. Other archives within the UK received imagery as well. The Keele archive only held imagery taken outside of UK. Before the move of the imagery, customers could call my department within the RAF looking for imagery of the UK, and then after all the imagery was moved, the National Archive at Swindon for imagery within England. The Welsh and the Scottish archives received imagery of their locations.
Hi Matzos, I just had a very brief look at your site and I have a Q which maybe in your remit. Do you have any knowledge of aerial recce photo's of the Arnhem area prior to Op Market Garden and do you think any will ever be found showing Armour in the area? I watched a documentary last year about Op Market Garden (Battlefield Detectives) and they suggested that its a very good possibility that none will never be found- There was a slight hint of foul play in the narrators voice Cheers Andy
Findiong them might be the problem , millions of photos. A few years ago I obtained some from them , giving a location was not enough , precise map references or they could not supply. In 1990 , it was approx £20 per photo as far as I can recall - not a cheap buy !
Hi Matzos, I just had a very brief look at your site and I have a Q which maybe in your remit. Do you have any knowledge of aerial recce photo's of the Arnhem area prior to Op Market Garden and do you think any will ever be found showing Armour in the area? I watched a documentary last year about Op Market Garden (Battlefield Detectives) and they suggested that its a very good possibility that none will never be found- There was a slight hint of foul play in the narrators voice Cheers Andy Andy, For a number of years I worked in the RAF archives before it all moved to Keele and we undertook a search for this imagery, no luck at all. It's going to be out there somewhere. Pilots who flow recce missions were allowed to keep a set of prints from each mission, this is why now we are starting to get prints on sites like Ebay. 16 Sqn flow a lot of tactical reconnaissance (armed recce aircraft) over Arnhem, I have a contact who has researched the squadron, I will ask him the question abou imagery and post back any results. Mick
This link is well worth a read; Arnhem: The Reconnaissance Story - Air Historical Branch (Royal Air Force) There's a selection of Arnhem recce photos on eBay at the moment, as well as some of other parts of Europe.
