Operation Crossbow

[fubar57]

BBC News - How aerial photographs tracked down Hitler's flying bombs

Geo

 

[rochie]

good stuff Geo.

there was a documentary on the BBC about this.

apparently Britain bought 2 off the special photographic machines from Germany through a neutral country to help identify the sites through stereoscopic photo interpretation !

 

[Airframes]

And I think they might have been of German origin, smuggled via Sweden, and transported to the UK, in pieces, by BOAC Mosquito.

 

[rochie]

And I think they might have been of German origin, smuggled via Sweden, and transported to the UK, in pieces, by BOAC Mosquito.

well i'll go with that Dogsbody, sounds more like what the docco said !