From Colditz to D-Day: Amazing aerial images taken by daring Allied pilots on secret missions during

The detail is astonishing. At first it looks like just another castle surrounded by tiny houses and neat fields. But zooming in on the courtyard one can see figures milling around.

They are in fact Allied officers being held in the notorious German PoW camp of Colditz and the photograph is one from an archive of aerial photographs taken by airmen - sometimes flying as low as 50ft - during secret reconnaissance missions in World War II.

Until now the pictures have been kept behind closed doors. But they are revealed to the public for the first time today via the internet amid a painstaking cataloguing process.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1230025/Google-Earth-Second-World-War-Amazing-aerial-images-taken-daring-Allies-revealed-Hitlers-weapons.html#ixzz0XgmvuDU3

 

I was looking at this site yesterday ike,good pics for sure,ray..

 

And another story.....Kompas.Com - Aerial Images by Daring Allies Revealing Hitler's Weapons

 

Great links. Some of those are very low.



Link to archive: The National Collection of Aerial Photography

 

I bet those low flights boosted morale in the camps

 

I bet they did too.

Sad to see this new archive does seem to be more about raising money by selling images long since paid for than freedom of historical information, not quite the same morale boost.