In their first book “Lancaster at War”, Garbett and Goulding said, in the introduction – “we would like to have shown more photographs of Lancasters downed in enemy territory; photographs which we have actually seen in official albums in London, acquired from the Germans. Unfortunately, some obscure rule can always be found to prevent these really priceless pictures being released.”
Can anyone shed any more light on that statement ? Do those albums still exist ? If so where are they ?
By: Sabrejet - 7th November 2015 at 13:30
Not specifically this one, but I can give a related example:
The National Monuments Record Centre at Swindon holds an ‘RFC official’ aerial photo of an RFC aerodrome, donated/loaned by an individual who placed a ‘not to be copied’ clause on its loan. Now this is plainly daft, since the person who loaned this particular image doesn’t hold the copyright on it.
But NMRC is adamant that the image cannot be copied, and that is (was) that.
Luckily, in the meantime I found the same image in the RAF Museum archives, and thus I now have a copy. RAFM thankfully has a more sensible approach, with various levels of fee/restriction, depending on use of the image.
I suspect Garbett and Goulding were up against similar nonsense.
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November 7, 2015 at 12:54 pm