Description

Evidence in Camera
Volume One, Number Four · 9th November, 1942
Issued by Air Ministry A.C.A.S.(I) · For Official Use Only
36 pages scanned

• Cover design — A Mioson graphic featuring a stylised silhouette of a head in profile merged with a camera lens and rangefinder, rendered in dark blue on pale blue.
• “This Is Not Our Idea of Security” cartoon — A Maurice Pownall cartoon showing an RAF officer reading his copy of Evidence in Camera to a civilian in a railway carriage, captioned with a speech bubble boasting of having sneaked the document away from his unit.
• U-boat construction at Danzig — Vertical aerial of the Danzig shipyard identifying fourteen 500-ton U-boats in various stages of building, fitting out, and dry-docking, with six under camouflage whose conning towers remain visible.
• Nurnberg 10-gun Flak position — Vertical aerial showing an unusually large heavy Flak battery where four newly added guns in the open have expanded the original six-gun emplacement to ten guns total.
• Hamburg lake Flak position — Night-condition vertical aerial of a six-gun heavy Flak battery constructed on the Aussen Alster lake in the city centre, with camouflage netting on a framework being spread around the gun positions.
• Cologne damage clearance — Vertical aerial of bomb-damaged Cologne showing extensive urban destruction, with debris and rubble being loaded into barges at the quayside for removal.
• Rostock fire damage — Vertical aerial of the old town taken during the April 1942 raids showing widespread fire devastation, with A.R.P. vehicles, fire engines, lorries, and ambulances visible in the Neuer Markt and surrounding streets.
• Warnemünde night smoke screen — Night flare photograph showing a smoke screen generated to protect the Arado factory aerodrome at Gross Klein, with individual generator trails fusing into a continuous blanket over the target.
• Kiel daytime smoke screen — Vertical aerial of Kiel under a daytime smoke screen intended to hinder photographic reconnaissance, the generators covering only the main building yard and naval quays.
• Nauen wireless station — Vertical aerial of one of Germany’s largest and best-known wireless stations, situated about 20 miles west-north-west of Berlin, showing more than a dozen antenna arrays spread across the surrounding farmland.
• Beaumesnil radio station — ground view — Oblique ground-level photograph of the Point to Point Communication Radio Station near Le Havre, showing the tall mast and surrounding cleared site.
• Beaumesnil radio station — aerial view — Vertical aerial of the same station providing a plan view of the square aerial array frame supported by its 160 ft. mast.
• Lorient/Keroman U-boat shelters — early construction — Vertical aerial of the Keroman peninsula showing the first shelter block (A) with completed roofing, the second (B) with roofing just commenced, and the site marked for a third block (C).
• Lorient/Keroman U-boat shelters — twelve months later — Vertical aerial of the same site a year on, with block B now complete, block C under active construction, and a U-boat visible alongside one of three camouflaged floating docks.
• Lancasters attack Milan — incendiaries bursting — Vertical photograph taken during the 24 October 1942 daylight raid showing a stick of incendiaries exploding across the city in a vivid chain of white bursts.
• Milan attack — smoke from fires — Vertical photograph from a later stage of the same raid, with a large billowing smoke cloud obscuring much of the target area as fires take hold.
• Milan — Parco Solari area — Vertical photograph showing a further stick of incendiaries detonating north of Parco Solari alongside smoke from fires started by the earlier wave of bombs.
• Milan — advanced stage of attack — Vertical photograph showing the smoke mass now considerably extended, with a high-explosive burst (A), scattered incendiaries detonating (arrows), and further bombs still falling (B).
• Allied convoy at sea — Oblique low-altitude photograph showing a large convoy of British and Allied cargo vessels and tankers spread across open water.
• Lancaster formation over Montrichard — Low oblique air-to-air photograph of forty-five Lancasters in loose formation over Montrichard on their outward leg to the daylight raid on the Schneider Arms Works at Le Creusot.
• Passenger ships identification page — Recognition page combining profile drawings and photographs of the liners Europa (51,700 tons, 937 ft., 28 knots) shown in side and vertical views, and New York (22,700 tons, 645 ft.) in oblique view.
• Passenger ships — Deutschland page — Recognition page showing the liner Deutschland (21,000 tons, 646 ft.) in oblique and vertical aerial views, alongside a vertical aerial comparing a 27,600-ton passenger liner, a 13,600-ton cargo liner, and a 5,600-ton tanker berthed together.
• Deutsche Vacuum Oil Refinery, Bremen — Vertical aerial of the refinery showing oil storage tanks protected by blast walls but painted with disruptive camouflage that proves ineffective, the tanks remaining conspicuous from the air.
• Refinery tanks under camouflage netting — Vertical aerial of the same refinery after semi-transparent darkened netting has been spread on a shadow-eliminating framework, through which the tanks remain dimly visible.
• German bomber production — Heinkel factory, Rostock/Marienehe — Vertical aerial of the Heinkel factory aerodrome identifying eighteen He 111s and five He 177s dispersed across the field.
• German bomber production — Junkers and Dornier factories — Two vertical aerials on one page: Ju 88s undergoing test flights at the Junkers assembly plant at Bernburg, and Do 217s parked outside the flight hangar of the Dornier factory at Lowenthal near Friedrichshafen.
• Know Your Ports — La Pallice — Vertical aerial overview of the La Pallice port showing the U-boat pens and the prominent new mole extending into the sea.
• La Pallice — earlier oblique view — Earlier oblique aerial of the port taken before the U-boat pens were constructed, showing the original harbour layout for comparison.
• Nantes/Chateau Bougon aerodrome — two stages — Two vertical aerials on one page showing the aerodrome as it was when still used by the B.A.F.F., then nearly a year later with a new runway laid, the original extended, a wood cleared, hangars removed, and a dispersal area completed.
• Nantes/Chateau Bougon — third stage — Vertical aerial from a further nine months on, showing completed camouflage of the runways and dispersal areas, with a former ammunition wood being converted into an additional dispersal area.
• Decoy aerodrome, Nordholz/Holssel — Vertical aerial of the dummy aerodrome constructed 3½ miles north of the real Nordholz station, its runway layout, ladder tarmacs, and oil tanks closely mimicking the original.
• Nordholz/Middlum Grossenwarden — real aerodrome — Vertical aerial of the actual G.A.F. bomber aerodrome, whose runways and tarmacs have been deliberately toned down so they do not reflect light at night as the decoy’s bright surfaces are designed to do.
• Timber sorting, River Laagen, Norway — Vertical aerial of a river timber-sorting operation in south-east Norway showing logs held by a river barrage, directed through sorting apparatus, and emerging graded and sized downstream.
• Timber sorting, River Glomma, Norway — Vertical aerial of a larger sorting installation over a mile long on Norway’s biggest river, the Glomma east of Oslo, with rafts of sorted logs visible on the water.
• Problem Picture — mystery port — Heavily shadowed vertical aerial of an unidentified port taken with the bomb-aimer’s camera partly obscuring the view, posed as a reader identification challenge with the answer deferred to the following issue.