The Archive · 1941

Clues to Factory Output

Trae on railway sidings is one guide as 10 but there are ing what is happening under roofs of, industrial dulldings, Entire industrial reas in many parts of Germany have been mapped Out and constant reconnaissance keeps recon of Germany's industrial effort up-to-date, The assessment of damage after raids" is essentially the task for expert. A factory may be ruined fand all its machinery smashed but from the air—there may. be nothing more to see than a hole in the roof hole not larger than a pinhead the photograph, But the inter prefer Knows the size and typo of bomb used from which data ho can calculate the extent of the damage nce he is certain there has been a hit When the Von Tirpitz, sister ship of the Bismarck, was under construc~ tion her whereabouts was disclosed bya photograph in which nothing of the ship but the reflection of her superstructure in the water was soon. The fest of the vessel was hidden bya dark shadow but it we Known from that detail that the shadow could not belong to any other ship, Squadrons of RAF, planes in the Army" Ca-operation Command" ore the eyes of the army, reporting. enemy movements, concentrations and positions, On the skill and Initiative of these pilots may depend the fate of armies,

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