Lot 189
Bomber Command, Air Ministry official photographs.- 40 gelatin silver prints, 1943-1945 (40)
Hammer Price: £1,000
Description
Bomber Command, Air Ministry official photographs.- 40 gelatin silver prints, each 158 x 214 mm. (6 ¼ x 8 ½ in.), official captions on versos, selected images including the Mohne Dam before and after breaching by the "Dam Busters", sunken Tirpitz, bomb damage to Berlin, Hamburg docks, Bielefeld, Heligoland and elsewhere, loose in a contemporary Ilford box, 1943-45 (40)
Provenance:
Archive of Noel Melville Richards, OBE, LVO, wartime head of the Photographic and Reproductions Branch of the Air Ministry.
Description
Bomber Command, Air Ministry official photographs.- 40 gelatin silver prints, each 158 x 214 mm. (6 ¼ x 8 ½ in.), official captions on versos, selected images including the Mohne Dam before and after breaching by the "Dam Busters", sunken Tirpitz, bomb damage to Berlin, Hamburg docks, Bielefeld, Heligoland and elsewhere, loose in a contemporary Ilford box, 1943-45 (40)
Provenance:
Archive of Noel Melville Richards, OBE, LVO, wartime head of the Photographic and Reproductions Branch of the Air Ministry.
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