Hi All, Flown on the 3rd June, a few days before the invasion by an aircraft of No. 16 Squadron, RAF, sortie 16/0392 has 96 frames in the NCAP database. The sortie target area appears to have been the southern Cotentin area with some frames also from the River Vire area. Three of the 96 are currently marked as 'un-locatable', one of which is frame 3030. Locating this frame took a little time despite having a familiarity to the well studied American airborne sector. The 'keel' shape formed by the four bends (arrowed red below) on what turned out to be the D67 road, brought this frame home: Image Credit: RCAHMS/www.ncap.org.uk The GE finder chart below shows how distorted the frame is and my normal Photoshop border template proved useless no matter how much I pulled or pushed the four sides. The pilot must have been either diving or climbing when he pressed the camera trigger. What a superb aircraft the Spitfire Mk.PR.XIX must have been to fly - they don't make them like that anymore Anyway, frame 16/0392_3030 has been added to our trophy room update list and will appear therein when the NCAP guys next update the Whitebeam Gallery page. Regards, Pat
RE: Recon Sortie 16/0392 [03-JUN-1944] Just noticed something... The second 'un-locatable', frame 4025, forms a stereo pair with 3030. There is a slight overlap on 3030's NE side. Finder chart in production... Regards, Pat Edit inserted at 15:03 The GE finder chart for frame 4025: