Description

Evidence in Camera
Volume One, Number Six · November 23, 1942
Issued by Air Ministry (A.C.A.S.(I)) · For Official Use Only
28 pages scanned, a few pages missing

• Loose talk security cartoon — A brush-and-wash illustration by Phipps contrasting the damage careless words cause at a peacetime social gathering with the far graver consequences of the same behaviour in wartime.
• Daylight attack on Fives-Lille — Vertical aerial photograph taken during the USAAF attack of 8 November 1942, showing bombs exploding on the Atelier d’Hellemes locomotive works with smoke rising over multiple damaged industrial targets.
• Attack on Genoa docks — Night aerial photograph taken on 7/8 November 1942 showing reconnaissance flares, a stick of incendiary bombs igniting, the aircraft carrier Roma identifiable in the dock, and a smoke screen blowing clear of the target.
• French battleship Jean Bart — vertical view — Vertical aerial photograph of the Jean Bart moored at Casablanca before the Allied North Africa landings, showing the forward turret armed with four 15-inch guns and the incomplete state of the remaining armament.
• Casablanca — oblique quayside view — Oblique aerial photograph looking north-west along the Quai Delande, with the Jean Bart under boom protection in the foreground and a La Galissonnière-class cruiser visible in the background.
• Casablanca — general port view — Vertical aerial photograph showing the full layout of Casablanca harbour with its pier and quay complex, warehouses, and shipping.
• Casablanca — south-east oblique view — Low oblique aerial photograph of the port looking south-east, showing a Duguay Trouin-class cruiser using her signal lamp alongside three destroyers moored at the Grand Jetty.
• Philips Radio Works, Eindhoven — head office area — Vertical aerial photograph of the southern portion of the Philips complex at Eindhoven, showing the head office building and the lamp and valve factory amid the surrounding urban area.
• Philips Radio Works, Eindhoven — main block — Vertical aerial photograph of the main half-mile-long production block, annotated to show the radio erecting shops, and encompassing paper mill, glass works, bakelite shop, and power stations.
• People’s Car Factory (Volkswagenfabrik), Fallersleben — Vertical aerial photograph of the large factory constructed in 1937–39 near Brunswick, revealed to be producing German Army equipment rather than the cheap civilian cars promised to subscribers.
• High-altitude reconnaissance bomber — Ju 86P in Crete — Vertical aerial photograph of long-span Ju 86P aircraft dispersed among olive groves at the Pediada/Kastelli aerodrome in Crete, demonstrating how difficult such terrain makes aerial detection.
• High-altitude reconnaissance bomber — Ju 86Ps at Berlin/Tempelhof — Vertical aerial photograph showing short-span Ju 86Ps dispersed across the Tempelhof aerodrome surface.
• High-altitude reconnaissance bomber — Ju 86P and He 177 compared at Rechlin — Vertical aerial photograph with both types present side by side, annotated to highlight the nose and tail differences that distinguish the long-span Junkers from the Heinkel 177.
• Naval units in Toulon — Oblique aerial photograph of Toulon harbour with the French fleet at its moorings, annotated to identify the battlecruiser Strasbourg, 8-inch and 6-inch cruisers, contre-torpilleurs, destroyers, and U-boats.
• Locomotives in storage at Pau — Vertical aerial photograph of the Pau station sidings showing thirty steam and three electric locomotives out of use, their outlines revealed by long shadows cast across the tracks.
• Forts as ammunition dumps — Fort Merxen, Antwerp — Vertical aerial photograph of the star-shaped Fort Merxen showing its distinctive moated profile, with the fort now serving as a German barracks, store, and ammunition dump.
• Decoys chart No. 2 — Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Mainz — Annotated map of the Frankfurt area with aerial inset photographs showing decoy sites at labelled locations around the city, part of a continuing series on enemy deception measures.
• Super heavy coastal battery — Sangatte/Noires Mottes — Vertical aerial photograph of the three-gun super-heavy battery under construction near Calais, showing the entire wire-ringed site with gun emplacements, a storage dump, and an associated four-gun Flak battery.
• Kristiansand South/Kjevik aerodrome — Vertical aerial photograph of the former Norwegian civil airport showing extensive German improvements including drainage works, extended runways, blast-wall shelters, hangars, and painted road camouflage.
• Enemy convoy in Ionian Sea — Vertical aerial photograph of an Axis convoy off the island of Paxos, showing three laden merchant vessels with a destroyer escort and a torpedo boat taking evasive action, all leaving distinctive wakes.
• Shipping identification — coasters (four photographs) — A recognition page combining a plan-view line drawing with four aerial and oblique photographs of coastal cargo vessels ranging from 110 to 210 feet in length, with notes on their typical construction.
• Alkali Works, Bernberg — Vertical aerial photograph of the Deutsche Solvay Werke at Bernberg on the River Saale, Germany’s largest alkali complex, producing soda ash and caustic soda for the alumina industry.
• Arc de Triomphe, Paris — Vertical aerial reconnaissance photograph of the Place de l’Étoile showing the Arc de Triomphe at the centre of its radiating avenues, with the Champs-Élysées and the Avenue de la Grande Armée clearly identifiable.
• Know your ports — Bergen, vertical view — Vertical aerial photograph of Bergen with its harbour features annotated, including the Vaagen channel, Puddefjorden, Store Lungegaards Vand, the naval quays, and the Dokkeskjaer Quay.
• Know your ports — Bergen, oblique view — Oblique aerial photograph of Bergen showing the Vaagen harbour channel with merchant shipping moored along both quaysides and the city’s characteristic densely packed townscape rising on either side.
• Problem picture — Vertical aerial photograph of a rural scene showing a curving field boundary with a distinctive textured strip alongside it, posed as a recognition challenge with the previous issue’s answer (glasshouses east of Venlo) confirmed below.