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Eyes of the RAF a history of photo-reconnaissance

RAF air photography has come a long way from faltering beginnings over the trenches of the Western Front during the First World War, when unwieldy plate cameras were fixed on the cockpit sides of Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 biplanes. By the close of the Second World War dedicated photo-reconnaissance...

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Main Author: Nesbit, Roy Conyers (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gloucestershire, UK Sutton Publishing 2003
Edition:Revised edition
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Royal Air Force > History
Aerial reconnaissance, British > History
Photographic reconnaissance systems > Great Britain > History
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Table of Contents:
  • The Other Side of the Hill
  • Cameras at War
  • Above the Trenches
  • Between the Wars
  • Sidney Cotton's Air Force
  • British Intelligence
  • Africa and Malta
  • The New Squadrons
  • Europe's Underbelly
  • Photography and the Invasion
  • Night Bombing and Photography
  • South-East Asia
  • Behind the Iron Curtain
  • Near and Middle East Commands
  • The Far East
  • Strike Command
  • Appendix: Second World War Photo-reconnaissance Strategic Units and Squadrons

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