Description

Evidence in Camera, Volume 1, Number 11, December 28th 1942
Publisher: Air Ministry A.C.A.S.(1) — For Official Use Only
29 pages (foldout page)

• New Year’s Resolution Cartoon — A pen-and-ink illustration by Maurice Pownall showing an RAF officer at his desk writing New Year’s resolutions for 1943, captioned with a resolve not to indulge in careless talk.
• Shadows Aid Ship Identification — Vertical aerial photograph of a coastal waterway in excellent shadow conditions, demonstrating how cast shadows allow analysts to distinguish between coasters, armed trawlers, sperrbreechers, a medium merchant ship, and a suction dredger.
• Camouflaged Vessels at Kiel — Vertical aerial photograph of the Deutsche Werft shipyard showing the pocket battleship Lützow under camouflage netting in dock alongside a liner, with strips of netting stretched from the dockside over the superstructure.
• Rhine Bridges — Three Variations — Three aerial photographs illustrating different structural types of Rhine crossing: the Mülheimer suspension road bridge at Cologne, the Skagerrak heavy lattice double bow-string road bridge at Düsseldorf, and the Süd heavy lattice treble bowstring rail bridge at Cologne.
• Rhine Bridges — Cologne Close-up — Large vertical aerial photograph of central Cologne showing the tramway-carrying Hänge suspension bridge and the Hohenzollern heavy lattice treble bow-string rail and road bridge, with its ramp to the lower road clearly visible.
• Combat Film Enlargements — Minesweeper Attack — Three stills from aircraft gun-camera footage of the attack on an “M”-class minesweeper on 30 April 1942, showing machine gun and cannon fire striking the water, the attack developing, and a final head-on close-up before breaking off.
• Deceptive Effect of Melting Snow, Le Havre — Three aerial photographs of the same Le Havre warehouse taken before, during, and after a period of thaw, demonstrating how partially melted snow on a roof can create a misleading impression of bomb damage or gutting.
• Broad-Beamed U-Boats — Two photographs of a broad-beamed U-boat at sea — one vertical and one oblique — accompanied by a dimensioned recognition diagram showing the distinctive relationship between beam and length, with the conning tower positioned slightly aft of amidships.
• Broad-Beamed U-Boat at St. Nazaire — Vertical aerial photograph of the southern lock at St. Nazaire showing a broad-beamed U-boat alongside two standard 517-ton U-boats, making the characteristic difference in beam immediately apparent despite identical overall length.
• Progress in Aviation — Farman Biplane, 1909 — Historical photograph showing aviator Paulan flying a Farman biplane at the Blackpool Aviation Meeting in 1909, presented as the opening image in a series on the development of aviation.
• Progress in Aviation — Boeing Fortress II, 1942 — Air-to-air photograph of a Boeing Fortress II on convoy patrol, contrasting with the 1909 biplane to illustrate thirty-three years of aviation progress.
• Decoys Round Bremen — Map (West) — Left-hand spread of a two-page illustrated map showing the western portion of the Bremen decoy network, with aerial photograph insets of the dummy oil installation at Vegesack, dummy buildings at Blockland, and the Delmenhorst decoy aerodrome at Henstedt.
• Decoys Round Bremen — Map (East) — Right-hand spread of the same map showing the full layout of four decoy sites around Bremen and Delmenhorst, with four inset aerial photographs identifying each site’s location and character.
• New German Long-Range Bomber — He 177 — Four aerial photographs taken at the Heinkel factory at Rostock/Marienehe showing Heinkel He 177s on the apron, near flight hangars, and parked outside the final assembly shop, with a note that very few had yet entered service.
• German Transport at Trapani/Milo — Vertical aerial photograph of Trapani/Milo aerodrome in Sicily lined with Ju 52s and a large powered version of the “Merseburg” glider with its six engines clearly visible, being used to transport troops to Tunisia and South Italy.
• Know Your Ports — Dunkirk — Large vertical aerial photograph of Dunkirk harbour and its dock system presented as a port recognition aid.
• Know Your Ports — Dunkirk Oblique — Oblique aerial photograph showing the quays, basins, and town of Dunkirk from a lower angle to complement the vertical view.
• Industrial Damage at Turin — Fiat Railway Workshops — Vertical aerial photograph showing extensive fire damage to the Fiat Railway Workshops and damage to the railway embankment caused during the attacks of 28/29 and 29/30 November 1942.
• Industrial Damage at Turin — Cenisia and Viberti Works — Vertical aerial photograph showing a further large area of industrial destruction including the completely gutted S.A. Industriale Cenisia factory, the fire-damaged Officine Viberti carriage and trailer works, and the Stablimenti di San Giorgio buildings.
• Turin — Lancia and State Railway Workshops — Two vertical aerial photographs showing fifteen acres of damage including the S.A. Lancia Motor Works and its subsidiary plant, plus considerable damage to the State Railway Workshops and a further section of the Fiat Works.
• Temporary Bridge Across the Noord-Zee Canal — Aerial photograph with inset detail showing a temporary pontoon and ferry-boat bridge erected at Zaandam since July 1942, constructed so that a section can be moved aside to allow canal traffic to pass.
• Zeesen Short Wave Transmitter — Vertical aerial photograph of the giant shortwave transmitting station at Zeesen, eighteen miles south-south-east of Berlin, showing the tall masts — including the “DJA” aerial used for the “Lord Haw-Haw” propaganda broadcasts — and their long shadows.
• Stalag XXA9, Danzig/Oliva — Aerial photograph of the prisoner-of-war camp at Danzig/Oliva showing the perimeter barbed wire with watchtowers at intervals, the camp entrance, and the adjacent range and ammunition dump.
• Problem Picture — Unidentified aerial photograph of a tidal estuary or saltmarsh presented as a weekly recognition challenge, alongside the boxed answer to the previous issue’s problem, identified as burning oil on the sea.