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Description: | Set of 34 glass slides relating to aerial photography during the First World War. It shows, the processes of acquiring and processing the images and has instructional slides relating to mosaics, panoramas and before and after comparisons and aerial images of the Western and Italian fronts. The aerial photographs cover:
The Butte de Warlencourt (vertical and oblique)
Hollebeke village before and after bombardment (verticals dated 17/6/17, No.6 Squadron, RFC)
Artois battlefield - spur of Notre-Dame de Lorette, including Vimy Ridge (Panorama)
St Mark's Square, Venice (oblique)
Asiago (vertical mosaic and panorama), dated 1918
Belluno (area north of), (vertical), dated 6/10/18
San Aviano aerodrome (vertical), dated 9/5/18
Cogollo (area north east of), dated 16/5/18
Dunkirk (oblique)
Battle of Messines (2 verticals), dated June 1917
Gillemont Farm after bombardment (vertical)
Bullecourt on the Hindenburg Line (obliques) dated 1917 and 1918.
Zonnebeke, including church, (oblique), dated 2/10/17
Villers Bretonneux (oblique), July 1918
Thirty four glass lantern slides (dimensions: 85mm x 85mm), all numbered in ink, some with basic caption labels. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Western Front 1914-1918 Reconnaissance British Army Royal Flying Corps Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force 1912-1918 Italy 1914-1918 Photography | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown Photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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