Description

Evidence in Camera

Volume 3, Number 10 — June 7th, 1943

Issued by Air Ministry, A.C.A.S.(I). For Official Use Only. Printed by C. & E. Layton Ltd, London, E.C.4.

28 pages scanned

• Cover Illustration: The front cover depicts a twin-engined aircraft dropping a bomb toward a surfaced German U-boat off a coastline.
• “You Never Know Who’s Listening”: A cartoon by Scott shows a woman in a nightdress warning a startled man in bed, with a security-conscious punchline about careless talk.
• Anti-Invasion Preparations at The Hague: Vertical aerial photographs show houses being demolished to the west of The Hague to create clearance areas and an anti-tank ditch between Sport Laan and Laan Van Meedervoort.
• Demolition at The Hague: Two oblique photographs illustrate the scale of the cleared demolition area and anti-tank ditch, taken looking south-east down the Stadhouders Laan and from a bridge over the canal at Sport Laan and Kranenburg Weg.
• Anti-Tank Obstacle at Scheveningen: An aerial photograph with an enlarged inset shows an anti-tank obstacle of angled concrete-set “teeth,” a pill-box, wire, and netted machine-gun posts built along the seafront at the entrance to the port.
• Further Flooding in Ruhr Valley: Photographs taken two days after the Moehne Dam breach show continued flooding of the Ruhr valley near Duisburg, including damage to the Raffelberg Bridge connecting the Mulheim suburbs of Styrum and Speldorf.
• S.B.C. Attacks on U-Boat Bases at Lorient: An aerial photograph shows bomb bursts scoring direct hits on the U-boat shelters and the Northern Power Station during a raid on Lorient on 17 May 1943.
• S.B.C. Attack on Bordeaux: Two aerial photographs, one an early-stage close-up, show direct hits on the lock gates and the Matford Aero Engine Works, with the lock basins subsequently seen emptying rapidly.
• Steel and Armament Works Damaged at Bochum: An aerial photograph shows fire and blast damage to the Vereinigte Stahlwerke A.G. steel and armament works, including its rolling mill, furnaces, and finishing sections, following an R.A.F. raid.
• Railway Station Damage at Duisburg: An aerial photograph marks direct hits on the roofs and platforms of Duisburg’s main railway station along with damage to surrounding residential and business property.
• Krupps Works Damage at Essen: An aerial photograph shows destruction and fire damage across several large machine shops of the Fr. Krupps A.G. heavy engineering works.
• Know Your Ports: Helsingør (Elsinøre): An aerial photograph with an inset identifies the Danish port’s shipbuilding yard, a Sperrbrecher in dry dock, and Kronborg Castle, the reputed home of Hamlet.
• Camouflaged Storage Tanks at Rotterdam: Aerial photographs compare uncamouflaged edible-oil storage tanks at Schiedam with a nearby group of tanks disguised with overhead netting and dummy trees.
• Ehrang Marshalling Yard and Trier Railway Workshops: A wide aerial view spanning two pages, with oblique insets, shows the Ehrang marshalling yard and engine shed and the Trier railway carriage and wagon workshops on opposite banks of the River Moselle.
• German Armoured Cars: Four-Wheeled: Photographs show the principal German four-wheeled armoured car, noted for its four-wheel steering and drive and its 2 cm heavy machine gun and light machine gun armament, both static and on exercise.
• German Armoured Cars: Six-Wheeled: Photographs show a German six-wheeled armoured car in motion through dust and mud, with its characteristic overhead wireless grid.
• Inundation at Quiberville: Vertical and oblique photographs show deliberate flooding of the Saane Valley at Quiberville, west of Dieppe, along with a possible control house and an anti-tank wall leading from the cliff.
• Further Inundation at St Aubin-sur-Mer and Pourville: Two photographs show further coastal flooding at the mouth of the River Dun near St Aubin-sur-Mer and demolition of the land strip between the inundated area and the sea at Pourville.
• Lancaster Aircraft in Flight: Enlargements from a cine film show Lancaster bombers, including a close view of a dorsal gun turret, en route to attack the Comines power station.
• A.F. Aircraft of Russian Design (B.71): Photographs show the B.71, a Russian SB-2 built under licence in Czechoslovakia and used by the German Air Force for target towing, seen at several airfields including Esbjerg, Köln/Ostheim, and Trondheim/Værnes.
• Fighter Aircraft Shelters at Lille/Vendeville: An aerial photograph of Lille/Vendeville aerodrome marks extensive bomber dispersal points and newly added small fighter aircraft shelters along the landing ground boundary.
• Stavanger/Sola and Stavanger/Forus Aerodromes: An oblique aerial photograph shows the lengthened runways of the former Norwegian civil aerodrome at Sola and the newer intersecting runways under construction at Forus.
• Prominent Landmarks: Cap d’Antifer and Île Noire: Photographs show the tall light tower and chalk cliffs at Cap d’Antifer north of Le Havre, and the light tower at Île Noire beside the boom across the Morlaix estuary.
• Prominent Landmarks: Boulogne and Le Touquet: Panoramic photographs identify the Colonne de la Grande Armée and Notre Dame Cathedral at Boulogne, and the black-and-white banded light towers at Le Touquet.
• Problem Picture: A vertical aerial photograph poses a recognition challenge, with the answer given as an aircraft direction-finding station east of Amsterdam, identifiable by its earthed system showing distinctly at the foot of each mast.