Description

Evidence in Camera
Volume One, Number Three · 2nd November, 1942
Issued by Air Ministry A.C.A.S.(I) · For Official Use Only
36 pages scanned

• Cover illustration — A stylised graphic by L. Noke depicting a flying-suited airman bent over a globe of Europe, examining reconnaissance film.
• “Adolf Twister” security cartoon — A Silverton cartoon, parodying Oliver Twist, showing a small Hitler-figure offering his bowl to be filled from a pot labelled “Hot Gen,” captioned “You wouldn’t help him — Would you?”
• Le Creusot Processing Works — bomb damage I — Vertical aerial photograph showing the destroyed southern end of the Locomotive Machine Shop and the complete demolition of an adjoining four-bay building following the 17 October 1942 attack.
• Le Creusot Processing Works — bomb damage II — Vertical aerial showing the ruined Cold Bending and Finishing Shop, damaged adjacent railway tracks, and destroyed sheds adjoining the main Turbine Building Shop.
• Le Creusot, Breuil Steel Works — general damage — Vertical aerial of the Breuil Steel Works with heavy damage to the main complex and severe destruction to adjacent warehouses marked by arrows.
• Le Creusot, Breuil Steel Works — General Machine Shops — Close vertical aerial revealing direct hits on the General Machine Shops and several nearby buildings.
• Le Havre boat pens attack — Oblique aerial photograph taken during a U.S.A.A.C. daylight raid, showing bombs bursting on the E. and R. Boat Pens with an A-20c Boston III visible overhead.
• Prague, Letov factory — Ju 86 repairs — Vertical aerial of the Letov I factory at Prague identifying nineteen Ju 86 bombers brought from the Russian front for repair, along with five Fw 189s, four W34 trainers, and damaged Ju 86 components.
• Antwerp/Kiel oil refinery — Vertical aerial of the oil refinery showing storage tanks roofed over to resemble ordinary buildings, with a church steeple on the opposite bank of the Scheldt serving as a landmark.
• Antwerp/Kiel oil refinery decoy — Vertical aerial of the dummy installation one mile to the south-west, featuring imitation oil tanks, a fake church steeple, and a searchlight relocated from the genuine site.
• Lorient U-boat shelter attack — bombs away — Dramatic vertical photograph taken from a U.S.A.A.C. Fortress, showing bombs in free-fall over the town and submarine shelters during the 21 October 1942 daylight raid.
• Lorient U-boat shelter attack — later stage — Vertical aerial showing a stick of bombs bursting across the shelter entrance channel, with two 750-ton U-boats visible alongside the floating dock.
• Oil storage tanks, Farge — Close vertical aerial of the buried oil-storage tank farm in the Schwanewede Forest, showing 195 ft.-diameter tanks at various stages of construction and concealment.
• Underground fuel storage, Kreuzlinger Forest — Vertical aerial of pits under construction near Munich intended to house 165 ft.-long cylinders for buried storage of Butane or Aviation Spirit.
• Heligoland Bight — vertical overview — Composite vertical aerial of the Heligoland naval base and Dune aerodrome, with the submarine pens visible in the harbour.
• Heligoland Bight — oblique view — Low-level oblique photograph looking across the harbour showing the substantial concrete submarine pen structure at right centre.
• Fortresses in flight — formation — Air-to-air photograph of a large formation of Boeing B-17E bombers of the U.S.A.A.C. climbing through broken cloud.
• Fortresses in flight — close detail — Air-to-air photograph showing B-17Es in loose formation at low altitude, clearly revealing the thirteen-gun armament including dorsal and ventral turrets.
• Nore I hydro-electric power station, Norway — Vertical aerial of Norway’s second-largest hydro-electric station in the Omdal Valley, showing the penstock pipelines descending to the generating hall.
• Tysso hydro-electric power station, Norway — Snow-covered vertical aerial of the Tysso station on Sorfjord near Odda, with the pipeline from Ringedal Lake visible and ice-free water in front of the turbine outflow.
• Cargo ships identification page — Illustrated recognition page combining profile drawings and aerial/oblique photographs of Split Superstructure and Three Island type cargo vessels with tonnage and speed data.
• Tankers identification page — Illustrated recognition page combining profile drawings and aerial/oblique photographs of various tanker types ranging from 6,500 to 11,000 tons with dimensional data.
• Nyborg train ferry terminal — Vertical aerial with inset of the Nyborg terminal on the Korsor–Nyborg ferry route, showing the ferries Nyborg and Sjaelland at berth and the Deutschland under way.
• Utrecht Autobahn junctions — Two vertical aerials on a single page: one showing a typical clover-leaf junction under construction south of Utrecht, the other a completed and operational junction of a different design, both built under German occupation supervision.
• Scharnhorst and Potsdam, Gdynia — Vertical aerial of the French Wharf at Gdynia showing the battle cruiser Scharnhorst and liner Potsdam berthed alongside, protected by a double boom, with new A.A. positions noted on the warship.
• Tirreno Shipyard, Riva Trigoso — Vertical aerial of the Italian destroyer-building yard showing four escort vessels under construction.
• Italian cruisers at Messina — Vertical aerial of Messina harbour identifying the severely damaged cruiser Bolzano with approximately 100 ft. of stern missing, and the cruiser Trieste displaying standard Italian recognition markings.
• Herdla aerodrome defences, Bergen — Annotated vertical aerial of the island of Herlö showing the HERDLA aerodrome runway, gun positions, searchlights, wire obstacles, radio beacons, and communications installations, with a printed legend.
• Meaulte Potez factory and decoys — Wide-area vertical mosaic showing the camouflaged Potez aircraft factory and its two illuminated night decoys, with bomb damage having collapsed part of the camouflage netting framework.
• Venlo bomber aerodrome — dispersal area — Vertical aerial of the Venlo aerodrome dispersal zone showing individual aircraft hangars camouflaged to blend with the surrounding woods.
• Venlo — Me 110 detail — Enlargement of the dotted area from the previous photograph, revealing a Messerschmitt Me 110 standing outside one of the well-camouflaged hangars.
• Whitby — vertical view — Vertical aerial of the Yorkshire coast town of Whitby showing the harbour piers, the River Esk estuary, and the surrounding townscape.
• Whitby — oblique view — Low oblique aerial looking across the curved harbour entrance piers at Whitby from seaward.
• Problem Picture — Deliberately obscure close vertical aerial photograph of an unidentified subject, posed as a reader identification challenge with the answer deferred to the following issue.