Hi Folks, I have applied to The National Collection of Aerial Photography (NCAP) in Edinburgh, Scotland to open a gallery on their site under the name 'Whitebeam Battlefield Research Forum'. They have today accepted my application and we are, for now at least, the only people with a gallery apart from themselves Our Gallery is located here and will be added to over time. The initial idea is to put images into the Gallery which NCAP have marked as 'Un-locatable' (some 1,570 as of today's date) as soon as we find the correct spot. I have been given a contact on the NCAP staff to email when we find new locations so if anyone spots one of these frames so labelled and knows which part of the jigsaw it belongs to, please let me know and we can have the captions altered to read correctly. The first image in our Gallery is NCAP_ACIU_US7GR_1730_8031 flown on the 6th June (more on that peculiar sortie in a separate thread) Below is a screenshot from GE showing the location - just south of Utah Beach; note La Vienville to the west and La Madeleine to the north: Image Credit: RCAHMS/www.aerial.rcahms.gov.uk This frame 8031 forms the subject matter of post #49 in the 'Far Flung Gliders' thread. The enlargement below shows the American Waco mentioned in the post circled in yellow, which, thanks to the research of Paul Woodadge, is almost certainly one of the gliders from Mission 'Chicago', bringing in elements of the 327th/401st GIR, 101st Airborne Division on the morning of the 6th June: Image Credit: RCAHMS/www.ncap.org.uk More un-locatables' will be posted here as they are found. Regards, Pat
Hi Guys, Yes, 1730 this is a strange sortie and I am working on what Don would call a crackpot theory but it needs it's own thread Regards, Pat