Warburton's arial recce pictures on-line

This is in addition to the two Warburton threads elsewhere.

The well known, but less seen site camerainevidence.co.uk has some arial recce pics, made by Warburton. they can be found on this site (Scroll to the bottom 3 pics), just under some Battle of Arnhem landingsite pics.

http://mirrored2.flabber.nl/ww2luchtfotos/index.html

 

Great site Stev, just goes to show the skill required by those who had to interpret these photos and make recommendations on what they believed they showed.

No.9

 

This is but a small part of the 5.5 pictures that were released last monday, theres already a post about it.

 

Have you been able to see the pics on that site yet, Leitung??

Exactly right, No.9, I didn't get my bino's out, but it is amazing what the interpetors had to work with. I have seen some pics from V1 and V2 sites in Holland and had a really hard time ID-ing the things were on the picture. Didn't find half of them.

[ 25. January 2004, 03:23 AM: Message edited by: Stevin Oudshoorn ]

 

Stevin's quite right - the TARA online archive from Keele University has been swamped with 'hits' so they've had to temporarily close down pending upgrades.

When the initial difficulties have been overcome, it promises to be an amazing source for us all

 

Without you posting this site Stev, I for one would not have seen any recce photos as when I tried the university site it just sat there waiting for download access. Thanks again

With current straight forward imaging, on a clear day a satellite can read a newspaper headline on someone’s paper, or better. Brig. Tom Churchill of 2 SS/Commando Bdo, was formerly a photo evaluator and used his skills when with the Brigade to evaluate pre-raid photos for himself.

I applaud the work of the university and would hope a body such as the Public Records Office would entertain other universities in projects to make available printed records on the web. Naturally, my first preference would be for W.W.II records. While the PRO no doubt does not have the budget, manpower or equipment to tackle this themselves, I find it shameful the government cannot play its part and provide and sponsor the servers and on-line requirements. Very likely the university has made all the overtures in this direction and equally likely the powers that be have trotted out the usual chestnuts in their replies as to why it’s not possible.

One day……………

No.9

 

Yeah No. 9, that's some manuvering and precision timing to actually get those pictures at the exact right time. Thanks for the link Stev.