Totalize bombing Aug 8 1944

[Michael Kenny]

By chance an air recce mission caught part of the air bombardment for TOTALIZE.

Map from Ried's book 'No Holding Back'





Taken on Aug 8 1944 the recce pics show a group of 12 B17 (first 2 photos) just after they dropped their bombs.

Photos from NCAP

http://ncap.org.uk/search/archive/1-1-7 ... &layers=BT



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[Kingfish]

Sorry, what recce mission?

DOH!
Nevermind, I read it as though a "ground" recce unit was bombed

I wonder if those photos were taken by the same plane that Meyer noticed circling overhead just prior to the German counterattack

[Michael Kenny]

Same flight (two darker aircraft) on their way from an earlier frame. Not very good formation discipline!