I have always been fascinated by aerial shots taken during World War II. These are just some of them.
The photograph above:
A reconnaissance photo taken after bomb smoke lifted over the three ball-bearing plants at Schweinfurt shows the damage inflicted by the The Mighty Eighth US Air Force during a concentrated attack on 21 July 1944. At the Kugelfischer works, three machine shops, a power plant, and an office building were partially destroyed; at the Fichtel and Sachs plants, a machine shop, boiler house, and two workshops were damaged; three machine shops and other installations were partially destroyed at the VKF Factory #1. In six days of raids over Germany ending 22 July 1944, 12,000 planes of the Eighth and 15th US Air Forces battered more than 100 Nazi targets, dropping more than 16,000 tons of bombs.
A B-24 Liberator is shown directly over the Messerschmitt component plant at Nauaubing near Munich during an attack on the aircraft works and nearby rail marshalling yards by bombers of the Mighty Eighth US Air Force 21 July 1944.
Italy’s formidable bombers. One of the latest “S-.81”- the famous Italian bombers—in flight.
An aerial photograph showing the “Warspite” fast aground on the rocks at Prussia Cove, Cornwall.
This aerial view shows a field in Normandy pitted with foxholes and slit trenches, which American troops dug in the initial attack on a beachhead in France.
A magnificent aerial view of a naval reconnaissance flying boat winging its way over the rock of Gibraltar here, Britain’s gateway to the Mediterranean. This was taken before the war.
This US B-25 Mitchell bomber was part of a formation which further disrupted German communications by scoring direct hits on a railroad and highway bridge at Pietrasante, 20 miles (32 kilometres) north of Pisa, on the Italian west coast.
Aerial Auschwitz-Birkenau was taken on September 13, 1944. How many lives could have been saved if they had bombed the infrastructure around the camp?
Bulgarian Air Force.
The four-engine long-range bomber of the German Luftwaffe Focke Wulf “Kurier.”
AC Martin B-26s cooperate by making a diversionary attack on Amsterdam/Schiphol, the Netherlands.
Luftwaffe Para Trooper.
Aerial silhouette Lancaster above flak Berlin.
Attack by a kamikaze pilot on the US cruiser USS Santa Fe. The plane crashed, but the cruiser survived and served for 25 months.
Close-up view of Spitfire just before the battle.
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