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Aerial view.

SC 449522

Description Aerial view.

Date 1939

Collection Records of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), Second World War Aerial Reconnaissance

Catalogue Number SC 449522

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 47581

Scope and Content Burghead, Moray Luftwaffe aerial photograph of Burghead radio transmitter, taken during World War II. Communications are vital to a nation at war and the BBC radio transmitter at Burghead was an essential link in the British network. The German Luftwaffe took aerial photographs of parts of Scotland throughout World War II. The photographs were used for intelligence work, such as selecting targets, assessing bombing accuracy and finding equipment and defensive positions. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/449522

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Attribution: © Courtesy of HES. (Records of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), Second World War Aerial Reconnaissance).

Licence Type: Limited

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