ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS BY THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE UNITS, 1939-1945. - Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial of the wrecked marshalling yards at Les Aubrais/Orleans, France, following a raid on the night of 19/20 May 1944 by 118 Avro Lancasters and 4 De Havilland Mosquitos of Nos. 1 and 8 Groups RAF, Bomber Command. This was a particularly accurate attack which put the yards entirely out of action before the Allied invasion of Normandy. All the lines in the yard have been cut and many wagons destroyed, some of which are still burning Royal Air Force, Expeditionary Air Wing,
ROYAL AIR FORCE: OPERATIONS BY THE PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE UNITS, 1939-1945. - Vertical photographic-reconnaissance aerial of the wrecked marshalling yards at Les Aubrais/Orleans, France, following a raid on the night of 19/20 May 1944 by 118 Avro Lancasters and 4 De Havilland Mosquitos of Nos. 1 and 8 Groups RAF, Bomber Command. This was a particularly accurate attack which put the yards entirely out of action before the Allied invasion of Normandy. All the lines in the yard have been cut and many wagons destroyed, some of which are still burning Royal Air Force, Expeditionary Air Wing, 902, Royal Air Force, Wing, 1, Royal Air Force, Group, 88
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