Hamburg-Wandsbek, Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945 C3832

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945.
Annotated vertical photograph taken over Hamburg, Germany by a specially-equipped aircraft to show the feasibility of damage plotting during a night raid. This exposure, taken without the use of a photoflash, shows areas of the city identified by the pattern of fires resulting from the bombing. The locations, all in the Wandsbek district are: 'A' - Horner Weg; 'B' - Washingtonallee; 'C' - Kamp Jenfelder; 'D' - the north end of Stengelestrasse; 'E' - fires burning among barracks; and 'F' - fires in the grandstand of the racecourse.