De Havilland Mosquito PR Mk XVI of No. 544 Squadron RAF, 26 July 1944. Mosquito PR Mark XVI, NS502 ?M?, of No. 544 Squadron RAF based at Benson, Oxfordshire, in flight and banking away from the camera to show the aerial camera ports under the fuselage. The arrangement shows a typical camera installation for high altitude reconnaissance, consisting of: a vertical 'split pair' of Type (14-inch) in the forward bomb bay; a further vertical 'split pair' of Type (20- or 36-inch) along the centre line behind the bomb bay, with, between these, a port-facing oblique Type (14-inch).

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