Aerial Photograph
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2016 12:46 am
Hello all,
Not sure if this is the appropriate section or not.
In the book "The Long Road" by Oliver Clutton-Brock, about the POW camp Stalag Luft 7 Located at Bankau (Bakow), Silesia, is an aerial photo of the camp taken at 28,000 feet on 5th September 1944.
It is credited as being in the collection of Keele University, but now believed to be in the NCAP collection.
My question is: how might I find which squadron/unit took this picture, and what aircraft was/might have been used?
A fellow investigator would like a copy from NCAP but they can't immediately find it and have asked for more detail such as Sortie/frame reference if possible!
The camp is also relevant to my research as one of my Uncles crew was also POW at SL7.
Based on various accounts I've found and principally from the above book, I've plotted the likely walking and train route taken to Stalag IIIA Luckenwalde in Google Earth and have managed to overlay a scan of the above photo on the map to locate the site of SL7 as little trace remains nowadays.
Should anyone be interested I would be happy to share the map file that can be loaded to Google Earth.
Thanks in anticipation
Neil
Not sure if this is the appropriate section or not.
In the book "The Long Road" by Oliver Clutton-Brock, about the POW camp Stalag Luft 7 Located at Bankau (Bakow), Silesia, is an aerial photo of the camp taken at 28,000 feet on 5th September 1944.
It is credited as being in the collection of Keele University, but now believed to be in the NCAP collection.
My question is: how might I find which squadron/unit took this picture, and what aircraft was/might have been used?
A fellow investigator would like a copy from NCAP but they can't immediately find it and have asked for more detail such as Sortie/frame reference if possible!
The camp is also relevant to my research as one of my Uncles crew was also POW at SL7.
Based on various accounts I've found and principally from the above book, I've plotted the likely walking and train route taken to Stalag IIIA Luckenwalde in Google Earth and have managed to overlay a scan of the above photo on the map to locate the site of SL7 as little trace remains nowadays.
Should anyone be interested I would be happy to share the map file that can be loaded to Google Earth.
Thanks in anticipation
Neil