Catalogue description Peenemunde: photographs. 20 photographs have been included within this folder. These are...

Peenemunde: photographs.

20 photographs have been included within this folder. These are described below. The photographs are accompanied by one folio of hand-written interpretation comments together with typed notes for items (19-20).

Item (1) 1 vertical aerial photograph showing a large concentration of bomb craters around a group of buildings, with roads and 4 planes on an airfield. The photograph is annotated in red with a compass indicator and the runway dimensions and identifies the buildings as"Hangars & Shops". Size: 10cm x 21cm, 23 July 1944.

Item (2) 1 vertical aerial photograph, No 7002, showing Peenemünde on the German Baltic coast. Front annotations show"V1 site" and"The elliptical earthwork V2 site" surrounded by bomb craters. Annotations on the reverse of the photograph identify the positions of corresponding features on the front,"Concentration (EHP) Building","Electrolytic Hydrogen Peroxide Plant Production building","W/T" [Wireless Transmitter],"Power Station","D/F" [Direction Finding station], and"Prüfstände" 1-7. Photograph taken by 540 Squadron. Size: 22cm x 20cm, 7 August 1944.

Items (3-4) 2 duplicate vertical aerial photographs, No 4087, showing close-up view of the Peenemünde site, showing V1 Prüfstände III, IV & V and aerodrome with 5 airplanes on the ground. Photograph staken by 544 Squadron. Size: 23cm x 18cm, 23 May 1944.

Items (5-6) 2 duplicate vertical aerial photographs, No 4088, showing close-up view of the northern area of the Peenemünde site, one copy of which is annotated in red showing"V1 site", road"To HQ" and"Aerodrome". Photographs taken by 544 Squadron. Size: 23cm x 18cm, 23 May 1944.

Items (7-8) 2 duplicate vertical aerial photographs, No 3091, showing close-up view of area surrounding Peenemünde Luftwaffe aerodrome, one copy of which is annotated in red showing"Aerodrome" and arrow indicating direction to"To main camp". Photographs taken by 544 Squadron. Size: 23cm x 18cm, 20 April 1944.

Items (9-10) 2 duplicate vertical aerial photographs, No 3092, showing close-up view of area surrounding rocket launch site, one copy of which is annotated in red showing boundary around"V1 site". Photographs taken by 544 Squadron. Size: 23cm x 18cm, 20 April 1944.

Items (11-12) 2 duplicate vertical aerial photographs, No 3026, one copy of which is annotated in red showing close-up position of"aerodrome" with Hangars and Shops and road leading to"V1 site". Note the runway that appears in items (1) and (2) was not present when this earlier photograph was taken. Photograph taken by 544 Squadron. Size: 24cm x 18cm, 5 March 1944.

Items (13-14) 2 duplicate vertical aerial photographs, No 4032, which are both annotated in red showing position of"V1" Prüfstände and marks on the ground and on the tidal sandbank that correspond to the apparent flightpath. Photographs taken by 540 Squadron. Size: 23cm x 19cm, 28 November 1943.

Item (15) 1 vertical aerial photograph showing an enlarged view of item (13) and annotated in red to indicate marks on the ground that correspond to the apparent rocket flightpath. Size: 13cm x 19cm, [28 November 1943].

Item (16) 1 vertical aerial photograph, No 4031, showing an enlarged view of item (13). Photograph taken by 540 Squadron. Size: 27cm x 26cm. 28 November 1943.

Item (17) 1 vertical aerial photograph, duplicate image of item 16 without annotations. [Photograph taken by 540 Squadron]. Size: 26cm x 25cm. undated.

Item (18) 1 unannotated vertical aerial photograph showing detail of V2 Prüfstand VII. Size: 29cm x 23cm. Undated.

Item (19) 1 annotated vertical aerial photograph showing"Probable very small aircraft at Peenemunde Firing Site 'Peenemunde 18'". Further interpretration details are provided in the accompanying text. Size: 8cm x 9cm. 26 April 1944.

Item (20) 1 annotated vertical aerial photograph showing"Very small aircraft at Peenemunde 'Peenemunde 11'". Further interpretration details are provided in the accompanying text. Size: 4cm x 7cm. 26 April 1944.