Photograph, Aerial Reconnaissance, Rouen, Normandy, 1944
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Photograph, Aerial Reconnaissance, Rouen, Normandy, 1944
Photograph, Aerial Reconnaissance, Rouen, Normandy, 1944
Photograph, Aerial Reconnaissance, Rouen, Normandy, 1944

Photograph, Aerial Reconnaissance, Rouen, Normandy, 1944

€55.00 Tax included

Rare genuine WWII USAAF aerial reconnaissance picture, showing a bridge over the Seine river in Rouen, Normandy.

Picture taken on May 4, 1944 by Lieutenant Atkins, which belonged to 'Peck’s Bad Boys' of the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group.

Original print, in good overall condition.

Format: 8.85in x 8.85in.

Description

The 67th Tactical Reconaissance Group performed tactical reconnaissance sorties during the D-Day invasion of Europe, flying North American P-51 Mustangs. Unit was based at Aldermaston and Membury, so that reconnaissance pictures and visual intelligence would be quickly available to IX Troop Carrier Command and its C-47 Troop Carrier units based there.

From Membury, C-47 troop carriers dropped paratroops of 101st Airborne Division inland from the Utah beachhead early on June 6 and released 82nd Airborne Division gliders on the next day. The 67th T.R. Group received a DUC for operations along the coast of France, when it flew at low altitude in the face of intense Flak to obtain photographs that aided the invasion of the Continent, flew weather missions, and made visual reconnaissance for ground forces.

After D-Day, the 67th T.R. Group based F-4/P-38 Lightnings and F6/P-51 Mustang photo-reconnaissance aircraft in Normandy on ALG A-9 at Le Molay-Littry from July through August 1944 to photograph US and enemy positions in support of the Normandy campaign.

Product Details

USM18-ANC43851