WWII Aerial Recon Photo's

[nikbear]

A new archive of aerial recon photo's has been put on the net to be browsed,thought some might like to see:03:

http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/top-stories/431953/wartime-aerial-photography-archive-online?aff=newsalerts

[Jimbuna]

I'm suprised you've received no reponses, there are some good shots archived there http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

[Laufen zum Ziel]

I'm suprised you've received no reponses, there are some good shots archived there http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

Very nice thank you for the share.

Mr. J, Me to . It seems to behappening more and more.:down::cry::timeout:

[Platapus]

I'm suprised you've received no reponses, there are some good shots archived there http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

Well it was posted at 4 am and you posted at 3:30 pm, during this time many of us were at work :D

But I agree, there are some very cool imagery there.

The publication of these images reminds me of an almost interesting story.

Back in the 70's the US DIA's charter said it was responsible for storing all intelligence related imagery.

All, meant all. Including German aerial imagery during WW II.

In the late 1970's Congress gave DIA authorization to no longer store this German imagery. DIA was planning to destroy a significant amount due to lack of storage space.

Well the National Archives out of St Louis objected and requested DIA to send to them all of the German imagery.

(I heard the results from one of the archivists during one of my research efforts)

Seven, C-141 Aircraft landed at Scott AFB with the imagery :timeout:

C-141s can carry a mega cubic butt load of imagery.

The National Archives archivists thought DIA had a few filing cabinets of imagery.. maybe a truck load or two. DIA had several warehouses full of just the German imagery. One of the many things the Germans were good at was collecting and storing aerial imagery. :har:

Lesson to future archivists: Make sure you know how much before you say "send it all". :haha::haha::haha:

[Platapus]

I hope they add some of the imagery taken over Japan. I am still trying to find imagery of Hamhung Harbour prior to Aug 45.

[Sailor Steve]

This is the first time I've been online today, so I couldn't respond.

Oh, and just FYI, it's "photos", no apostrophe (').

[Weisia]

A great collection! Thank you for sharing:yeah:

[KL-alfman]

hmmm, over 4000pix to load and see .....

thx for sharing this link!

[Red Heat]

A new archive of aerial recon photo's has been put on the net to be browsed,thought some might like to see:03:

http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/top-stories/431953/wartime-aerial-photography-archive-online?aff=newsalerts

Huge work to arquive, select, and restore this images of History from the W.W.II.
Thanks for sharing with us, mate... :DL

[urfisch]

yapp, already browsed this archive. but on the most images you can just see very few details. to get a 300dpi copy you have to pay 10 pounds per image. which is quite a lot!

but to see this archive getting digitalized is very nice.

[Butzis]

Thank You Nikbear. Very interesting.
Greetings and gute Jagd !