A sudden revelation about the photograph in the post of 27 April. See this new page: Harris’s Office, Bomber Command HQ
Intelligence
Intelligence services, including photographic reconnaissance
Photography in the Air War: 2
In February 2019 we featured Captain Bryan de Grineau’s drawing of Lancaster gunners ‘Hotting-up‘ which was published in The Illustrated London News in December 1943. Now here is another fascinating Bryan de Grineau drawing, also from The Illustrated London News, of… Read More ›
Photography in the Air War: 1
Following on from the two last posts on the critical role of photography in the Air War, I came across this wartime press photograph of the head of Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, studying reconnaissance photographs using:… Read More ›
EVIDENCE IN CAMERA
More from the fascinating 1957 book Evidence in Camera. Wing Commander Peter Stewart was chosen to command a new Assistant Directorate of Photographic Intelligence in the summer of 1941. At this time reconnaissance photographs were showing how badly Bomber Command… Read More ›
Bruneval Raid, 27/28 February 1942
I always love it when all sorts of research threads link up unexpectedly. Last Sunday, I went to Goodrich, near Ross-on-Wye, for a talk about a radar aid called H2S and the tragic crash which killed its inventor, Alan Blumlein…. Read More ›