Description

Evidence in Camera

Volume 3, Number 9 — May 31st, 1943

Publisher: Issued by Air Ministry, A.C.A.S.(I)

Page count: 28 pages scanned

• You Never Know Who’s Listening (Cartoon): A cartoon by Scott shows a man loudly gossiping in front of a parrot on a perch, warning against careless talk.
• Bomb Bursts on Kiel Shipbuilding Yards: A photograph shows Liberator aircraft flying over a smoke pall from bomb bursts on the Germania and Deutsche Werke shipbuilding yards at Kiel.
• Kiel Shipyard Damage Detail: An annotated photograph identifies two capsized U-boats, a submerged floating dock, a torpedoed U-boat, and numerous damaged buildings across the Germania Yard.
• Former Avions Potez Aircraft Factory, Meaulte, Wrecked: A high oblique photograph, with an inset of Fortress aircraft passing over the target, shows the S.N.C.A. du Nord factory at Meaulte enveloped in smoke from a fighter-escorted Fortress raid.
• Meaulte Factory Damage Detail: An annotated photograph details severe damage to the Meaulte factory’s stores building, assembly shops, hangars and transport garage from direct hits and blast.
• Pillar of Railway Bridge Swept Away, Herdecke: A photograph shows a railway bridge pillar at Herdecke carried away by floodwater that swept 30 miles down the Ruhr Valley from the breached Moehne Dam.
• Flooding at Schwerte and Dahlhausen: Photographs show a flooded road and washed-out railway embankment at Schwerte and the still-flooded marshalling yard and houses at Dahlhausen, days after the dam raid.
• Balloons Flying Over Sorpe Dam: A photograph shows repair work and barrage balloons over the damaged crown of the Sorpe Dam two days after the attack.
• Heligoland and Dune Islands Bombed: An annotated photograph shows bomb bursts on the barracks, artillery depot, airfield, harbour and U-boat harbour during a U.S. Bomber Command attack on Heligoland and Dune.
• “M” Class Minesweepers Leaving La Pallice: A photograph shows three M Class minesweepers leaving La Pallice, alongside the wreck of the French liner Champlain and a trawler-type auxiliary.
• La Pallice Port Detail: A further photograph shows another minesweeper leaving La Pallice past dry docks holding a Möewe Class torpedo boat and a Sperrbrecher, with a new lock under construction.
• Know Your Ports: Naples: An annotated aerial map of Naples harbour identifies the Central Railway Station, Granili Barracks, commercial port, outer harbour and Fort dell’Ovo of this major Italian Fleet base.
• Camouflaged Landmarks, Stuttgart (Before): A photograph shows the oval lake in the Theater Platz, the Neues Schloss quadrangle and the Exhibition Hall as conspicuous landmarks in Stuttgart before camouflage.
• Stuttgart Landmarks Camouflaged: A follow-up photograph shows the lake covered with a dummy path, painted gardens simulated in the quadrangle, and the Exhibition Hall dome disruptively painted.
• Junkers 88: Photographs show Ju 88 aircraft, the most numerous German type, dispersed at Tours/Parcay-Meslay, Aalborg/West, and conspicuously exposed on uncamouflaged tarmac at Hörsching.
• Dornier Flying-Boats: Photographs show Do 18 and Do 24 flying boats, now largely used for sea rescue, at Norderney, at their moorings, and in flight over Cherbourg/Chantereyne.
• Captured Enemy Equipment in the Middle East: An annotated oblique photograph shows captured German and Italian tanks and armoured vehicles, many damaged, gathered at a British depot in the Middle East.
• Vertical View of Captured Vehicles: A vertical photograph of the same vehicle group identifies armoured cars, troop carriers, semi-tracked tractors and an Italian truck-mounted anti-aircraft gun.
• German Eight-Wheeled Armoured Car in Action: Oblique combat photographs show a damaged German eight-wheeled armoured car and troop carrier, with a Pz Kw II tank moving nearby.
• German Eight-Wheeled Armoured Car Close-Ups: Close-up ground photographs show the captured armoured car from several angles, including with its turret gun removed and its overhead frame aerial fitted.
• Damage Clearance at Rostock (Before and After Attack): Paired photographs show part of old Rostock before the 1942 raids and the same area burning during the last of four successive night attacks.
• Rostock Damage Clearance Detail: A photograph taken a year after the raids shows the extent of damage clearance in Rostock’s old town, with St. Marien Church and the Market Square identifiable.
• Problem Picture: Bombing Range near Rechlin: A puzzle photograph invites readers to identify a heavily cratered area, revealed at the foot of the page to be a bombing range near Rechlin.