Description

Evidence in Camera

Volume 3, Number 2 — April 12th, 1943

Issued by Air Ministry, A.C.A.S.(1)

28 pages scanned

• Keep It Under Your Hat! — a satirical cartoon by A. E. Beard warning against careless talk, showing a soldier confiding in a woman.
• Rotterdam Docks Attacked — aerial photo of Ventura bombers striking Wilton’s Yard, with bursts near floating docks, merchant vessels, and a minesweeper.
• Rouen Marshalling Yard Damaged Again — aerial photo of a heavy concentration of hits on the Sotteville Marshalling Yard and Quatre Mares Locomotive Repair Works.
• Fires at St. Nazaire — night photo of fires burning over the U-boat shelter target area during an R.A.F. attack.
• Effect of Mist at Night, Sindelfingen — oblique night photo showing how mist in valleys distorts the appearance of the Daimler-Benz works.
• Mosquitos’ Dusk Attack on Philips Works, Eindhoven — photos of a dusk raid on the Philips Radio lamp and valve factory, showing smoke bursts and the low-altitude approach.
• U-Boat Shelters at Trondheim — before-and-after aerial photos documenting construction progress at the Ladehammeren Basin U-boat base over eight months.
• Italian Battleships at Spezia — aerial photo of two Littorio-class battleships moored and protected by booms in the Outer Harbour.
• Cavour and Duilio Class Battleships — annotated photos comparing the rebuilt Cavour and Duilio class battleships and their size relative to the Littorio class at Naples.
• Know Your Ports — Messina, Sicily — annotated aerial photos of the train ferry terminal, naval establishment, and U-boat basin at Messina.
• Road Excavations in Berlin — aerial photo of a deep excavation across Kaiser Damm, possibly intended as an underground air raid shelter.
• Fort of Alessandria — aerial photo of the star-shaped Vauban-style fortress south of Turin on the River Tanaro.
• Heavy Flak in Action — three photographs of heavy flak batteries near Düsseldorf firing at reconnaissance aircraft.
• Flak Towers and Satellites — aerial photos comparing flak tower and satellite construction at Berlin’s Humboldthain and at Hamburg.
• Thermic and Hydroelectric Stations, Marbach — annotated aerial photo of camouflaged power stations on the River Neckar connected to the Höheneck grid.
• Höheneck Transformer Station — annotated aerial photo identifying circuit breakers, busbars, and transformers at the main north-south 380,000 volt station.
• Italian Fighters — aerial photos of Macchi C.202, Re.2001, and C.R.42 fighters at Venegono airfield and the Breda factory airfield at Milan/Bresso.
• R.42s and C.202s at Turin and Lonate/Pozzolo — further photos of Fiat C.R.42s and G.12s at the Fiat factory airfield and Macchi C.202s near the Macchi factory.
• Enlargements from Combat Films — cine film stills from Ventura aircraft attacking shipping in Dunkirk Harbour.
• 400 ft. Square Target in Mountains — photos taken after Mosquitoes bombed the Knaben Saeter Molybdenum Mines in Norway, showing the difficult mountain terrain.
• Problem Picture — a mystery aerial photo challenging readers to identify trenches dug during the last war near Juvincourt, N.W. of Reims.