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The K-20 is an aerial photography camera used during World War II, famously from the Enola Gay's tail gunner position to photograph the nuclear mushroom cloud over Hiroshima. [1] Designed by Fairchild Camera and Instrument , approximately 15,000 were manufactured under licence for military contract by Folmer Graflex Corporation in Rochester ...
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.
[1]: 20 For example, at Las Vegas Army Airfield 600 gunnery students and 215 co-pilots were graduated every five weeks at the height of World War II. [citation needed] Training started on the ground using mounted shotguns with fixed arcs of fire, and then shotguns mounted on the backs of trucks, which were driven through a course. Then the ...
A Messerschmitt Bf 109 escorting a Junkers Ju 87 of the Luftwaffe in 1941. The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the Wehrmacht.Under the leadership of Hermann Göring, it was able to learn and test new combat techniques in the Spanish Civil War.
The Williamson F24 camera is a camera used for aerial reconnaissance by British and Allied armed forces from 1925 through into the mid-1950s, most particularly during World War II. It is also sometimes referred to as F.24 or F-24.
World War II aerial operations and battles of the Eastern Front (2 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Aerial operations and battles of World War II" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
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).
It consisted of a Freya aerial of the Breitband type working in Bereich I (1.90-2.50), the frequency of which could be adjusted at will. The aerial was so built that it rotated through 360° and gave a remote panoramic presentation. About 20 units were in use in January 1945. The range claimed for it was only about 100 km.