War from the air.

When I tried to get on, yesterday afternoon, it kept returning me to the login page – and I assumed (eventually) that this was because the site doesn’t open until Monday…:rolleyes:

Flood.

The entire MOD WW2 air recon photo archive of over 5 million images of Western Europe is going online from Monday.
The site is so slow at the moment, probably due to the amount of people trying to get on, I have given up trying to access it but once things settle down it should be facinating.
The link is below.

http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk:8080/arecon/index.jsp

Here’s a piccy of a slightly earlier model of F5 Lightning (perhaps an F5H),but it still had the cameras in the same position.You can just see the aperture for the camera on the left side of the nose…

From the Hollywood gossip thread

As mentioned in my Hollywood thread. Tony Cooper of 64 Sqd. certainly had a private camera onboard his Spitfire to record the D-Day momentous event.

At this resolution perhaps not too easy to see the ships and their wake but certainly visible are the hurriedly applied full invasion markings and the adjacent Spitfire.

Mark

Photo Credit: Tony Cooper

It’s a photo recce P38 no doubt. Lots of photos like that of the invasion beaches with an engine of a 38 showing

Dan

It certainly looks suspiciously like a P38 spinner to me as well. Might be an F5 version and the pilot decided to take a few pictures for his own album whilst flying his recce mission.

Isn’t that a P38 Lightning spinner in the first pic? If so, why would a fighter pilot be carrying a handheld camera on an operational mission?

Maybe too many beers to night, but it seems odd.