Archive 04: Luftwaffe Aerial Photograph
...and there was the German bomber streaking up the river, so long and thin you could tell it was a Dornier Flying Pencil. And bursts of anti-aircraft fire, like grey balls of cotton wool growing in the sky, in clumps of four, but all miles behind the bomber.
Robert Westall: Children of the Blitz: p46
Luftwaffe Aerial Photograph taken c.1939 This photograph appears by kind permission of Richard Trembath of Loftus.
This photo, very probably taken pre-war (compare with document 3 - note absence of barrage balloons) has been marked by German Intelligence with target positions and anti-aircraft gun positions.
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target photo marked 'Geheim' (secret) was given to Luftwaffe
bomber crews on missions to Tyneside. The photograph is numbered: GB2171 which refers to the target marked in bold red which was the British Petroleum Oil Depot in South Shields. Other targets are numbered and refer to other Luftwaffe intelligence photographs. Target
5078 is the electricity substation on Tanners Bank not
far from Wilkinson's Factory. There are 2 Flakstellung (anti-aircraft guns) positions identitified:inside Tynemouth Priory grounds at the river entrance and also inland at Marden Quarry (top centre). Compare this photo with the Luftwaffe Stadtplan of North Shields With thanks to Gary Carverhill for the loan of the photograph. |
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