[PIC GALLERY] Aerial Photography WWII

[Louis]

Oct 16, 1944: Bombing of Hong Kong by USAF.

 

[Louis]

Nothingness itself. Damage caused by the atomic bomb in Nagasaki - 1945 pic - (up), and Hiroshima -1947 pic- (down).

 

[Louis]

German bunker complex outside Würzburg, 1945..

 

[Gunner]

While looking for the Life article I found this one.

 

[Gunner]

Thanks for the "Likes".

I went over to Google maps to see if maybe there was anything left standing from the pic and found the cathedral, St Lorenz, still standing.

 

[Louis]

Above, aerial photograph of Pearl Harbor from 17,200 feet (5,250 m).
Below, another angle.
According to the source, May 3, 1940.

 

[Nort]

 

[Louis]

Aerial view of Attu Island, Alaska, July 18, 1943.

 

[Gunner]

In the Air Force if we screwed up we were threatened to be transferred to Shemya Air Force Base out on the Aleutian chain of Alaska if we screwed up.
The tour was one year and was considered "remote" (boy was it). It was only 5sq miles. You couldn't have family members joins you because there was no housing for families. (Not that I had one anyway).
No people other than military personnel which meant little or no women for a year!
Really it was just a gas station and radar site.

 

[Louis]

In the Air Force if we screwed up we were threatened to be transferred to Shemya Air Force Base out on the Aleutian chain of Alaska if we screwed up.
The tour was one year and was considered "remote" (boy was it). It was only 5sq miles. You couldn't have family members joins you because there was no housing for families. (Not that I had one anyway).
No people other than military personnel which meant little or no women for a year!
Really it was just a gas station and radar site.

The same thing happens here. There's a place called Covunco, in the province of Neuquen, near the border with Chile. There's a regiment there, and it's considered a punishment center. If someone asked about a certain soldier here who hadn't been seen lately, the response would be "they sent him to Covunco"—as if to say something funny. But it's just a myth, a military legend. In fact, there are places farther away. Lucky I didn't see it; the climate is cold because of its proximity to the mountain range.

 

[Louis]

Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial showing devastation caused to the Michelin rubber works at Clermont-Ferrand, France as the result of a precision attack carried out by 21 Avro Lancasters of No. 5 Group, Bomber Command on the night of 16/17 March 1944.