Description

Evidence in Camera
Volume 1, Number 7 · November 30th, 1942
Issued by Air Ministry A.C.A.S.(I) · For Official Use Only
36 pages scanned

• Cover illustration — A stylised pen-and-ink drawing by Midson showing a twin-engine RAF reconnaissance aircraft emerging from cloud, used as the cover masthead for this issue.
• “Your Silence Helps Success” security poster — A cartoon by Silverton of a figure clapping a hand over his own mouth, beneath the bold slogan urging operational secrecy.
• Damage at St. Nazaire — harbour area — Vertical aerial photograph of St. Nazaire taken after the USAAF attack of 9 November 1942, showing the Locomotive Depot almost completely destroyed, railway buildings hit, and a coaling company’s shed damaged alongside bomb damage to the Penhouet Works.
• Damage at St. Nazaire — Bassin de St. Nazaire — Vertical aerial photograph of the south-eastern end of the Bassin de St. Nazaire, showing direct hits on the Hydraulic Machine Shop and dockside buildings, a large crater on the quay of the South Entrance Lock, and other damaged areas.
• Railway electrification at Oslo — vertical view — Vertical aerial photograph of the Eastern Station area at Oslo, showing the overhead current electrification system on the converging railway lines and the adjacent harbour.
• Railway electrification at Oslo — oblique view — Oblique aerial photograph of the electrified railway line near Oslo with an express train in motion, the overhead current standards casting clear shadows across the trackside.
• Battlecruisers at Gdynia — Gneisenau — Vertical aerial photograph of the Gneisenau back at her former berth alongside the Roumanian Wharf, still stripped with approximately 140 feet of bow missing and all main armament removed, with camouflage netting over her stern.
• Battlecruisers at Gdynia — Scharnhorst — Vertical aerial photograph showing the Scharnhorst now in the floating dock vacated by the Gneisenau, with camouflage netting effectively concealing her outline and blending her into the surrounding structure.
• Italian freighters — SM 82s at Rome/Littorio — Vertical aerial photograph of multiple Savoia-Marchetti SM 82 Canguru transport aircraft dispersed at Rome/Littorio aerodrome, with an SM 75 civil transport also visible.
• Italian freighters — SM 82s at Castelvetrano — Vertical aerial photograph showing SM 82s with mottled and dark camouflage schemes dispersed on the Castelvetrano aerodrome surface in Sicily.
• Italian freighters — SM 82s at Castel Benito — Vertical aerial photograph of Castel Benito aerodrome south of Tripoli, with one SM 82 taking off and two others taxying into position.
• German armoured fighting vehicles — aerial trials photographs — A composite page of four oblique aerial photographs showing captured Pz Kw II, III, and IV tanks undergoing trials, alongside a Czech 38t and an Italian L3/33 flame-thrower variant, illustrating the vehicles’ appearance from the air.
• German AFVs — Pz Kw II and III ground photographs — Two close-up ground-level photographs of a damaged Pz Kw II light medium tank and a Pz Kw III medium tank, each captioned with type, weight, speed, and crew specifications.
• German AFVs — Pz Kw IV and aerial comparison — An aerial photograph of all three tank types together for comparison alongside a ground-level photograph of a captured Pz Kw IV medium tank showing its longer-barrelled gun.
• Oil wells near Hanover — Neinhagen — Vertical aerial photograph of the Neinhagen oil field, part of Germany’s largest oil-producing area, annotated to show producing wells with visible derrick shadows, camouflaged storage tanks, and a further group of camouflaged tanks by the railway sidings.
• Stettin harbour — western area — Vertical aerial photograph of the Stettin waterfront showing an Isar-type motor vessel under way, a U-boat in a floating dock, a T-class torpedo boat, a 1942 M-class minesweeper, two bucket-ladder dredgers, and piling works for a new jetty.
• Stettin harbour — Danzig quay — Vertical aerial photograph of the Danzig quay at Stettin, showing a large coaster loaded with ten motor transports alongside and a Sonnevind-type vessel embarking troops.
• Know your ports — Stettin, western section — Annotated vertical aerial photograph of the western part of Stettin port showing the Grabower Fahrt waterway, the naval base island, and the approach channel.
• Know your ports — Stettin, eastern section — Annotated vertical aerial photograph of the eastern part of Stettin port showing the River Oder, the Oder-Danzig Canal, and the Breslauer Fahrt waterway with the city beyond.
• Fieseler Aircraft Factory decoy — Kassel/Crumbach — Vertical aerial photograph showing both the genuine Fieseler factory at Waldae and the dummy decoy site one and a quarter miles away, with its similar-layout assembly shop silhouettes and a decoy fire site.
• Fieseler decoy — Kassel/Crumbach night photograph — Night aerial photograph taken during the attack of 27/28 August 1942, showing the decoy fire site active, with sticks of incendiaries burning in the surrounding area.
• Littorio and Cavour battleships at Naples — Vertical aerial photograph of Naples harbour showing a Littorio-class and a Cavour-class battleship at their moorings alongside destroyers, torpedo boats, U-boats, and the merchant vessel Lombardia.
• Italian fleet units at Spezia — Vertical aerial photograph of part of the Spezia naval base showing the 8-inch cruiser Bolzano before she was damaged, a Regolo-class cruiser, and a newly observed type of escort vessel or sloop, with Italian recognition markings visible on most vessels.
• Riviera invasion — Istres/Le Tube aerodrome — Vertical aerial photograph taken on 19 November 1942 showing German Ju 88s and Fw 190s newly arrived alongside Vichy Air Force LeO 45 bombers at Istres/Le Tube following the German occupation of southern France.
• The German arrival at Tunis — El Aouina aerodrome, first photograph — Vertical aerial photograph of Tunis/El Aouina on 12 November 1942 showing Ju 52 transports and an Italian SM 82 in German markings being unloaded, with the burnt-out wreck of another SM 82 visible.
• Unloading transport aircraft at El Aouina — Second vertical aerial photograph of the same aerodrome showing further Ju 52s, an SM 82, Me 109s, and a crashed Vichy Air Force Bloch 174 on the field.
• Cap Gris Nez batteries — vertical view — Vertical aerial photograph of the Cap Gris Nez headland showing the Framzelle/Floringzelle super-heavy three-gun battery on concrete structures, dummy positions of similar layout, a three-gun cliff-edge battery, and a six-gun position.
• Cap Gris Nez — oblique view — Earlier oblique aerial photograph giving a clearer view of the three-gun battery sited on the cliff edge near the lighthouse.
• Camouflage of aircraft shelters — uncamouflaged and mound type — A composite page of three vertical aerial photographs illustrating uncamouflaged shelters at Beaumont-sur-Oise, mound-type camouflage at Peronne/Mons-en-Chaussée using netting on frameworks, and four shelters at Eindhoven combined under a single painted mound.
• Camouflage of aircraft shelters — house type — A composite page of three vertical aerial photographs showing fighter shelters painted to resemble houses at Eelde in Holland, bomber shelters disguised as farmyard buildings at Lille/Vendeville, and shelters at Cormeilles-en-Vexin camouflaged as oversized villas with painted gardens.
• Fortifications of the Siegfried Line — overview — Vertical aerial photograph of the Siegfried Line defences on the outskirts of Bischmisheim south-east of Saarbrücken, annotated to show Dragon’s Teeth anti-tank obstacles and machine-gun cupolas on earth-covered casemates.
• Siegfried Line — enlarged detail — Enlarged vertical aerial photograph of the same Bischmisheim area showing in greater detail the tank obstacle gaps, casemate entrance shadows, approach tracks, and cupolas.
• Oslo/Fornebu aerodrome — Vertical aerial photograph of the former Norwegian civil airport at Oslo/Fornebu, annotated to show blast-wall aircraft shelters, the large hangar, transport dispersal area, and Flak positions.
• Stukas in Norway — Bodø aerodrome — Vertical aerial photograph of Bodø aerodrome in Norway with Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers dispersed among blast-wall shelters, the type used to attack Allied convoys on the northern Arctic route.
• Problem picture — Vertical aerial photograph of a rural area with circular tracks, a gas holder, and associated industrial structures, posed as a recognition challenge with the previous issue’s answer (Dragon’s Teeth anti-tank obstacles) confirmed below.