Hi all,
I’m half way through Martin Middlebrook’s excellent book on the August 1943 raid to Peenemunde, and have just got through the bombing stage.
So often in books you hear about the Pathfinder markers going down and lighting the target up in different colours, but you have to visualise it in your head to make sense of it. I’m aware 1943 is very early in the development of colour photography, but does anyone have any colour shots of Pathfinder markers going down in their collections, or is this something that may have to stay in our imagination?
Steve
By: Arabella-Cox - 15th February 2009 at 09:40
When I was in Frankurt around 1977 I met a chap called Gus Lerch who had written a book on the air war over that city. I no longer have the book, but it had some ground-level pics of the markers going down. These were in colour as I recall, but they may have been tinted. I cannot recall the details now.
By: Augsburgeagle - 15th February 2009 at 09:12
it does,
but it gives some rather weird visual effects, bombers on acid?
By: Moggy C - 15th February 2009 at 08:29
Your best hope would be ‘Night Bombers’
It is a long time since I have seen it, but it could feature some target markers visible in the Main Force run to target. Anybody care to check their copy?
http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/150135/Night-Bombers/Product.html
Moggy
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February 14, 2009 at 11:58 pm