{"id":1818376,"date":"2023-09-08T08:32:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1818376"},"modified":"2023-09-08T08:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:32:59","slug":"world-war-ii-aerial-reconnaissance-photos-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/09\/world-war-ii-aerial-reconnaissance-photos-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"World War II Aerial Reconnaissance Photos of England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historic England has posted some 3,600 aerial images of England<\/a>, of a collection totalling more than 20,000, taken during World War II by USAAF<\/abbr> reconnaissance aircraft. This was done as part of the crews\u2019 training\u2014their job was to collect aerial photos of Nazi Germany and occupied Europe, but they needed to practise first\u2014and as so often happens in history, information collected for one purpose can pay unexpected and unrelated historical dividends: a wealth of aerial imagery from 1943 and 1944. The images are available via this interactive map<\/a>. [PetaPixel<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n

Previously: Historic England\u2019s Aerial Photo Explorer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Historic England has posted some 3,600 aerial images of England, of a collection totalling more than 20,000, taken during World War II by USAAF reconnaissance aircraft. This was done as part of the crews\u2019 training\u2014their… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[165,989,71,500],"class_list":["post-1818376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-conflicts","tag-aerial","tag-england","tag-uk","tag-world-war-ii","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1806487,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/03\/historic-englands-aerial-photo-explorer\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818376,"position":0},"title":"Historic England’s Aerial Photo Explorer","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"23 March 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"Historic England\u2019s new Aerial Photo Explorer allows users access to an archive of some 400,000 digitized aerial photographs taken over the past century. 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