Aerial photographs taken during reconnaissance missions in World War 2

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 Craters surround a site at Peenemunde in Mecklenburg-Vorpommem, Germany on 2 September 1944 following an Allied bombing raid on the site where the V weapons were designed and tested

 

Central Caen in Normandy in France. This oblique image was taken by the Royal Air Force on 2 October 1944

An unidentified urban part of Germany, pictured on May 7, 1945

A picture taken on D-Day, 6 June 1944, of the Allied invasion. In the picture vehicles can be seen at the moment they disembark from landing craft