RAF photo-reconnaissance operations

Not a book as such, but papers of RAF Historical Society lectures/seminars are available on the RAF Museum website and the following link to a 1991 event is a very interesting read:

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/Research/RAF-Historical-Society-Journals/Journal-10-Seminar-Photo-Recce-in-WWII.pdf

I’ve just seen Sandy’s Spitfire recently advertised on Facebook – so will definitely have to get hold of that one.

Evidence in Camera by Constance Babbington Smith. If you can find a copy that is. Published in 1958, I remember reading this as a teenager from the library (not in 1958 though – a liitle later !). She was the one that found the V1 flying bombs at Peenemunde on the photos taken by PR. I suspect that Eyes of the RAF would cover a lot of what she had written though !

Also Most Secret War by R.V. Jones which has quite a few mentions of PR, especially the Bruneval raid. Must be one of the most fascinating books ever written about the 2nd world war anyway, if you haven’t already read it.

‘Eyes of the RAF’ A history of photo-reconnaissance by Roy Conyers Nesbit ISBN 1-85833-389-X is well worth looking at.

Cheers for those suggestions.

Combat and Competition by David Ince is another interesting autobio by (originally) an Army Officer (a ‘Broon Fokker’) who managed to get on an Army Co-op pilots course in spite of not meeting eyesight standards.He was destined for Mustangs in the Army Co-op role and then managed to transfer to the RAF where he became a Typhoon Pilot who specialised in low level Fighter Recce and not averse to local modifications on the ‘Tiffy’.Post war he became a Glider Pilot (‘competition’).

Skyspy by Ray Holmes is quite a nice autobio – he was a pre war VR pilot and then operational fighter pilot who later did a tour on Recce Spitfires,I have not read it for years so hope I got those details correct.