What Became of the LW Photo Reconnaissance Photos of the "Archiv der Fliegerfilm"?

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'clock High!:

Chris Going
GAF Reconnaissance imagery
Wed Jun 14 17:13:56 2000


Can someone help me? I am writing an account of what happened to the Luftwaffe photo reconnaissance photography seized at the end of WW2 and while I have
made useful progress I have come up against a brick wall -does anyone have chapter and verse on the destruction (on the River Saale, apparently) of the 'Archiv der
Fliegerfilm'?

Also, does any one know of any color photographs of Luftwaffe reconnaissance activity in WW2?
Some was taken...but does it exist now?

Thanks in anticipation ..... I have checked NARA and PRO, but the folk there did not have anything.
Chris Going

[Richard T Eger]

From TOH!:

Chris Going
Help! GAF Photo-Reconnaissance
Fri Jun 16 09:36:31 2000


Help! Has anyone ever seen primary source material referring to the discovery of the Stabia OKH print Library (found near Ramsau Tal, Austria, in June 1945), or for
that matter, anything on the destruction of the Archiv der Fliegerfilm on the Saale in ?April 1945. Thoughts? Will reciprocate, if I can, with refs. Chris Going.

[Jaap Woortman]

Luftwaffe aerial photos.

As you may know we have the Dutch Studygroup Airwar 1939-1945 in the Netherlands{ fly.to/bulletin }. This group of people has published a study about the "Phoney War" period in the Netherlands in 1990. The book is out of print since a long time. One of the authors of this work is the present chairman of the Studygroup Mr.Peter Grimm. I myself am the secretary of this Studygroup. Chapter 4 of this book is called "Beobachten ist kämpfen". In translation "Reconnaissance is fighting". In this chapter you can find aerial photographs, taken before May 10th, 1940, from Rotterdam-Waalhaven, Veere, Amsterdam-Schiphol, Den Haag, Zeist and Kootwijk. Are these photo's from the Stabia OKH collection? Who knows. Fact is that Peter has found these photo's in the National Archives and Record Service, Washington/Cartographic & Architectural Branch: RG 373, DT/TM-3/Holland & Luxembourg. Can someone please check if these photos are a part of the Stabia OKH collection?

Jaap

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'clock High!:

Chris Going
Calling Luftwaffe Photo-reconnaissance Veterans
Fri Aug 4 12:51:05 2000


Can anyone assist me? I'm looking for any veterans who served in Fern- or NahaufklaerungsGruppen
who flew over either the Uk or the Ostfront who might answer questions about Arctic reconnaissance in Barents/White sea regions.

Also. I am trying to find out what happened to the Archiv der Fliegerfilm, reputedly destroyed after an attack on a convoy of barges in April 1945. I also very much want
to find out about any eyewitnesses to the movement of the OKH Print Library, captured near Bad Toelz by a SHIP(OKL) parts in late May/june 1945. Any ideas
anyone......?

[Richard T Eger]

From 12 O'clock High!:

Hans Smit
lufywaffen veteranen
Fri Jan 26 06:19:22 2001


I am an kind of late comer to this site. I have read and found that almost all of it was done bij an younger generation.
What happenen to the other oldtimers?

Also when Talking about the Luftwaffe. We Had an very importend group that has not been mentioned yet The Luftwaffen Helferinnen. The ones that beat us man in
Funken(Morse code) The ones that kept us informed about the weather and a enemy aircraft in our area?

Lets hear it from them.

Hans

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Chris Going
Urra fuer die Helferinnen!
Fri Jan 26 09:35:26 2001


Bravo Herr Smit!

The role played by women in the military forces in so many different areas is so consistently underplayed that one might suspect that it was deliberate. They were in the
Horchdienst, they were in Air Traffic control/Plotting, in Photo Intelligence -where they re-ordered the Archiv der Fiegerfilm in 1944 (a superhuman task, after the men in the
AoK's let it get into such a terrible mess). Does anyone out there know of one of thewomen veterans of that back-breaking campaign at Himmelpfort?
Are there any GAF womens memoirs to match the British stuff - like Clayton's 'The Enemy is Listening' or Ursula Powys -Lybbe's 'The Eye of Intelligence' or
Babbington-Smith's 'Air Spy?


Chris Going