WW2 Royal AIr Force Photographs

[Jim W]

Just found this link on another site.
Absolutely amazing photographs.........

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...wtopic&t=14429

[Jim W]

And then this video documentary about Spitfire 944 is equally incredible.
Well worth taking 15 minutes of your life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY

[bulletmagnet]

Thanks for posting Jim, amazing archive of pics!....(there goes a few hours of my life, tuts and rolls eyes) :)

[ditchvisitor]

Some of those originals are on the wall in the Mess! And that PR19 Spit used to be the gate guardian I think!

[Velorum]

Amazing pictures - thanks for the link!

[estoban7]

fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting.

[magirus]

fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting.

This.

[GraniteQuarry]

Oh yes, terrific find. Will spend a couple hours looking through that over the weekend

[Clarky]

Fantastic!

Thanks for posting the link :)

[BillyCasper]

Love the Mosquito, but the Stirling looks a pig. Been inside the Loch Ness recovered Wellington, they let my 88 year old dad in - ex-WOP/AG on them. Not easy to get in to. Great day out.

[odgreen]

Thank you!

Amazing pictures from....well very different era of history. Thank you. It helps to understand what our fathers and grand-fathers has gone thru.
Not want to hijack your threat but if dear readers are interested: over here Finnish Defence Forces just published large collection of pictures from eastern front: http://www.sa-kuva.fi/

Descriptions unfortunately only in Finnish. :( (PM for translations/details)

-OD

[Mark020]

Thanks for posting Jim, amazing archive of pics!....(there goes a few hours of my life, tuts and rolls eyes) :)

Same here :-)

[ralphy]

Thank you very much for the link, bookmarked for later viewing but the fist page alone has some superb photo’s on it!



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[deano42]

And then this video documentary about Spitfire 944 is equally incredible.
Well worth taking 15 minutes of your life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY

How cool was that.! Fancy seeing the plane you crashed after 60 years...

Thanks
deano

[boddah]

Great find!

[Keke]

Excellent find, bookmarked for future reference. Thanks for sharing!

[Dontblowsmoke]

Some great shots on there. Really enjoyed that.

[spaceslug]

Brilliant, thanks for sharing. Love the shot of all the different types of bombs together.

[LeighG]

Excellent. Many thanks for the link.

I wonder how they loaded up the "Grand Slam" at approx. 10 Tons it would have taken some shifting. Off to Google that now!

Interesting. Also known as "The Earthquake Bomb" and a follow on to the smaller "Tallboy" invented by none other than Barnes Wallis. Grand Slam was closer to Wallis's original idea for a ground penetrating weapon.

Found a You Tube about them being dropped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUQKl81aN4

...and one to a wiki with more details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb

I take no pleasure in the death and destruction that these weapons caused, save for the fact that the alternative was surrender to the tyranny of A Hitler.

[Jeff wilson]

Great thanks

[PickleB]

And then this video documentary about Spitfire 944 is equally incredible.
Well worth taking 15 minutes of your life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY

I think it's worth reviving this thread for a mention of the BBC documentary I'm currently watching, Operation Crossbow:

The heroic tales of World War II are legendary, but Operation Crossbow is a little-known story that deserves to join the hall of fame: how the Allies used 3D photos to thwart the Nazis' weapons of mass destruction before they could obliterate Britain.

This film brings together the heroic Spitfire pilots who took the photographs and the brilliant minds of RAF Medmenham that made sense of the jigsaw of clues hidden in the photos. Hitler was pumping a fortune into his new-fangled V weapons in the hope they could win him the war. But Medmenham had a secret weapon of its own, a simple stereoscope which brought to life every contour of the enemy landscape in perfect 3D.

The devil was truly in the detail and, together with extraordinary personal testimonies, the film uses modern computer graphics on the original wartime photographs to show just how the photo interpreters were able to uncover Hitler's nastiest secrets.

Edit: It turns out that the documentary dates from 2011...but still worth a watch if you haven't seen it before, as I hadn't. See this link for a photo of the Wild A6 acquired during the war for stereo photogrammetry and mentioned in the programme.

[TimeThoughts]

Excellent. Many thanks for the link.

I wonder how they loaded up the "Grand Slam" at approx. 10 Tons it would have taken some shifting. Off to Google that now!

Interesting. Also known as "The Earthquake Bomb" and a follow on to the smaller "Tallboy" invented by none other than Barnes Wallis. Grand Slam was closer to Wallis's original idea for a ground penetrating weapon.

Found a You Tube about them being dropped.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeUQKl81aN4

...and one to a wiki with more details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb

I take no pleasure in the death and destruction that these weapons caused, save for the fact that the alternative was surrender to the tyranny of A Hitler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpfZX9nLSpQ