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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence.
Online WWII
Aerial Photography Site
A massive online
archive of British wartime aerial photographs is to be released on a new site,
Monday 19th January 2004.
This includes pictures of in
your face D-Day landings in Normandy, under a digitalisation project setup for 5
million Royal Air force photos of Western Europe.
http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk.
“These images allow us to
see the real war at first hand – as if we are RAF pilots,” said Allan Williams,
head of the Aerial Reconnaissance Archives project at Keele University in north
central England.
The photos, key intelligence
for Allied commanders during World War II, include American troops landing in
Normandy on D-Day, showing the effects of bombing on Cologne, Germany, and the
German battleship Bismarck being hunted by the Royal Navy.
The pictures were sent to
Keele in 1962 from the Allied Central Interpretation Unit, where wartime
analysts studied the material collected by reconnaissance crews.
The collection is the
property of the national Public Records Office on permanent loan to the
university.
Prior to digitalisation,
meant searching through thousands of boxes by hand.
The Aerial Reconnaissance
Archives (TARA) expects later to release 2.5 million pictures of German
Luftwaffe air force reconnaissance of Eastern Europe, seized by the Allies at
the end of the war.
An eye opening project, if
ever there was one!
Online WWII
Aerial Photography Site written by Bill Barber
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