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The National Collection of Aerial Photography is a photographic archive in Edinburgh, Scotland, containing over 30 million aerial photographs of worldwide historic events and places. From 2008–2015 it was part of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland [ 1 ] and since then it has been a sub-brand of Historic ...
The archive also holds more than two million vertical (bird's-eye view) aerial photographs, covering the whole of England, including near-complete coverage taken by the RAF in 1946–48, whose Crown copyright expired 50 years after the images were created. These are available via a search request from the Archive Services Team.
The entire California coast is included, except sections of Vandenberg Air Force Base [5] (although some historical photos are included from an earlier survey in 1989). Most of the coast has been photographed several times, and the website has an interface for comparing photos taken during different years.
On the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy these haunting pictures show how lives were changed forever by the invasion.From reconnaissance images taken by RAF crews before and ...
Aerial reconnaissance photograph of the opposing trenches and no-man's land between Loos and Hulluch, France, taken at 7.15 pm, 22 July 1917. Still, in 1914, the British entered into aerial reconnaissance in the First World War with no credible heavier-than-air capability. The shortage was in optics and cameras as well as aircraft and pilots.
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The Istituto Geografico Militare acquired aerial photographs to sustain its war effort against Ethiopia in the mid 1930s. The aerial photographs over Ethiopia in 1935-1941 consist of 8281 assemblages on hardboard tiles, each holding a label, one nadir-pointing photograph flanked by two low-oblique photographs and one high-oblique photograph.
Aerial view of RAF Exeter airfield on 20 May 1944, showing the triangular layout of the runways and the encircling (light-coloured) perimeter track. Class A airfields were World War II (WW2) military installations constructed to specifications laid down by the British Air Ministry Directorate General of Works (AMDGW).