• Text size
  • Send this article to a friend
  • Print this article

Revealed: secret images from air of world at war

Vivid wartime scenes of prison camps and bombing raids are revealed to the public for the first time today with the launch of an online archive of aerial photographs.

The pictures, taken during secret reconnaissance flights by pilots in unarmed planes, show details such as prisoners in the yard at Colditz, vehicles leaving landing craft on D-Day and craters left in the ground from bombing raids on a German weapons testing site.