Description

Evidence in Camera

Volume 2, Number 13, March 29th, 1943

Issued by Air Ministry A.C.A.S. (I.); printed by C. & E. Layton Ltd, London, E.C.4

28 pages scanned

• “We Know He Won’t Talk!” Cartoon: A Maurice Pownall illustration jokes about wartime secrecy with a circus balancing act.
• Renault Works Attack, Building C: A photo taken during the daylight raid on the Renault Works at Le Mans shows smoke rising from bomb bursts on the roof of Building C.
• Renault Works Attack, Building B: Another photo from the same raid shows smoke pouring from a number of bursts on the roof of Building B.
• Damage to the Renault Works: An annotated photo taken two days after the raid shows severe roof and blast damage across several numbered buildings at the Renault Works.
• Boulogne Port Overview: A vertical photo identifies the tidal harbour, wet dock, inner harbour, and outer harbour, noting the completed E/R-boat shelters.
• Boulogne Oblique View: An earlier oblique photo looks toward the north-east across the port and town of Boulogne.
• Nuremberg Night Attack: A night photograph taken early in the raid on Nuremberg shows fires starting at the Siemens Schuckert-Werke and the M.A.N. works.
• Industrial Damage in Nuremberg: An annotated photo shows extensive fire and high-explosive damage to the Siemens Schuckert-Werke and M.A.N. works following the raid.
• Munich Military Stores Damage: A photo shows a military clothing and equipment warehouse completely destroyed and nearby A.F.V. repair depot buildings damaged during the Munich raid.
• Munich Second Military Equipment Store: A nearby military equipment store is shown completely destroyed in the same raid.
• Munich Milbertshofen Storage Depot: An annotated photo of this large storage depot near the B.M.W. works shows direct-hit damage to two large buildings and numerous guns stored in the open.
• Krupp’s Works Essen Damage: An annotated photo details severe damage caused to numerous workshop, forge, and administrative buildings at Krupp’s works during an earlier raid.
• Krupp’s Locomotive Works Fire: A photo from a second raid shows the Locomotive Works still burning, with the Locomotive Tenders Shop and Rolling Stock Shop also badly damaged or destroyed.
• Krupp’s Hutted Housing Estate Devastation: A photo shows two-thirds of a nearby hutted housing estate destroyed along with part of the Steam Hammer Shop.
• Essen Town Centre Devastated: A wide photo shows a 160-acre area of the Essen town centre devastated, including the near-total destruction of the Town Council offices.
• Essen Devastation Detail: A further photo shows the extent of residential and business devastation across the town centre.
• Camouflage of Daimler-Benz Factory Stadium: An annotated photo shows netting, dummy trees, and dummy roads added around the stadium near the Daimler-Benz factory at Stuttgart to disguise the surrounding landmarks.
• Damaged Molybdenum Mines, Knaben Saeter: An annotated photo shows the cone crusher, conveyor, and new mill extension at the Knaben molybdenum mine destroyed or damaged by a Mosquito raid.
• Well Known Buildings in Berlin: An annotated photo identifies the Reichstag, Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden, and the former site of the Siegessäule monument.
• Berlin Landmarks Uncamouflaged: A photo shows the Charlottenburger Chaussee and the relocated Siegessäule monument as conspicuous, uncamouflaged landmarks.
• Camouflage of Berlin Landmarks: A photo shows netting erected over the Chaussee and cone-shaped netting placed over the Siegessäule monument to disguise them.
• Esch-sur-Alzette Steel Works: An annotated photo of this Luxembourg steel works identifies the blast furnaces, Bessemer shop, and rolling mills, noting new black-out shading over the Bessemer shop.
• Sittang Railway Bridge Damage: A photo shows two missing middle spans of this bridge in Burma, damaged by British forces during the earlier retreat.
• Ava Bridge Damage: A photo shows the bridge near Mandalay with damaged spans that have caused the river to silt into a large sandbank.
• Blankenberghe Concrete Wall Defence: A photo shows a concrete wall built in front of a row of houses with painted-on house features to disguise the fortification.
• Blankenberghe Wall Continued Across Road: A further photo shows the defensive wall extended across a road and camouflaged to blend with the building it adjoins.
• Blankenberghe Defensive Position: A vertical photo shows anti-tank gun and machine-gun emplacements, wire, trenches, and a protective minefield in the Blankenberghe area.
• Blankenberghe Oblique Defence View: An oblique photo of the same position shows the minefield and the revetting and construction of the trenches.
• Combat Film: Hurribomber Attack on Armed Trawler: A sequence of gun-camera stills shows a Hurricane bomber attacking an armed trawler, with a bomb burst visible on the vessel’s port beam.
• German Pontoon Bridge at Houtrak: A photo shows a second pontoon bridge built across the Nord Zee Canal, with sections moved aside to allow river traffic to pass.
• German Road Bridge at Peyhorade: A photo shows a new, straighter road bridge built by the Germans to replace an older, more awkwardly angled crossing.
• Problem Picture: Oil Streak in the Atlantic: A puzzle photograph challenges readers to identify the pattern, revealed as an oil streak photographed in the Atlantic Ocean.