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TankBuster

08-02-06, 23:13

Did you know that only 6 photos of omaha beach exist that were taken on June 6 1944 by richard cappa... aparently the darkroom guy got too excited and over exposed over 50 other pics! what an idiot.

Matzos

09-02-06, 10:16

aparently the darkroom guy got too excited and over exposed over 50 other pics! what an idiot.

Sorry to make a point of order, but as a Military Air Photographer and one of those 'the darkroom guys', the poor photographer could not have over exposed the pictures, as he could have reprinted them at a later date from the original film, he may have over proccessed the film, thus making it unprintable, I have seen this done in this day and age!

But Tankbuster is right on a day like the 6th June is not the day to get things wrong.

TankBuster

09-02-06, 19:14

Thanks for the idea..... it does make more sense

Reloader

12-02-06, 21:30

In his book 'D-Day', Stephen Ambrose relates what happened to Robert Capa's pictures.
Having managed to get back off Omaha Beach and onto an LCI, Capa got back to Portsmouth later that day, caught a train to London and handed in his film for developing.
The darkroom assistant was so eager to see the photographs that he turned on too much heat while drying the negatives. The emulsions melted and ran down. Of the 106 pictures Capa had taken, only 8 were salvaged and were blurry.
Capa was understandably upset, until he realized that the grey, murky photos of the men going ashore caught the chaos and fear on Omaha Beach exactly.

Reloader

12-02-06, 22:12

Here's some more about Capa and those pictures. In this case, there were apparently 10 photos taken from 11 surviving negatives?
Note also the link to discuss the 'mystery' of why the pics did not survive?

http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html

Matzos

13-02-06, 10:47

Excellent link solthum solthum

Matzos

14-02-06, 15:13

Here's a link to show some of the photo reconnaissance imagery taken on D-Day.

http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/exhibits/

Reloader

19-02-06, 20:59

Great link Matzos. solthum

TankBuster

22-02-06, 19:21

Well the air recon pics did a good job in mapping out objectives, but one question is that, if we were working with the french, why did we not get info on the hedgerows, which caused a lot of our boys to get killed by snipers or AT guns?????And why couldnt we learn of the anti glider poles(Rommels asparagus) in time ????

Bombardier

09-11-06, 21:35

Heres an example of Rommel's Asparagus

http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/705/2asparagus.jpg

Drone_pilot

09-11-06, 23:23

These are the anti landing craft type IE: with a mine on top to blow the bottom out of any thing hitting them, planted at the lowtide mark they were below the water leavel and as such out of site.

the glider ones were just poles stuck in the ground.

Bombardier

09-11-06, 23:35

Similar to these then

http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/data/710/3asparagus001.jpg

Drone_pilot

09-11-06, 23:46

That's the one's, I've seen the mount seen in the background but the name slips me at the moment.

Anyone have any idea???

Reloader

10-11-06, 21:32

Droney, it is the Abbey of Mont St. Michel, on the north coast of France, near the border of Brittany and Normandy.

Drone_pilot

10-11-06, 22:51

Thanks mate, sign of old age forgetin

thanks for that, the name slipped me for a moment, must be the sign of old age forgeting thing's.

Bombardier

11-11-06, 08:29

Thanks mate, sign of old age forgetin

thanks for that, the name slipped me for a moment, must be the sign of old age forgeting thing's.

Lol funny
Your right sign of old age forgetting things

Lol funny sign of old....feck me ive just said that :eek: solaf

Reloader

13-11-06, 00:21

Not affected me yet, knock on wood......Is that someone at the door?solaf