IWM catalogue record
This contains information written on the back of the original print and some of it may be inaccurate.
Aerial photograph of Blakehill Farm airfield looking south, the bomb dump is top left, the technical site and barrack sites are bottom right of the airfield, 15 March 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC234. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).
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Units
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Group
Based for the majority of their service at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire, the 7th Photographic Group (Reconnaissance) took over three million intelligence photos during the course of 4,251 sorties over occupied Europe. The Group was awarded a Distinguished...
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Military site : airfield
Allocated to the Ninth Air Force but not used.