I have always had a bit of a thing for unintentionally abstract vintage photographs and today I bought a large bundle of WW2 Aerial photographs taking during bombing raids over Nazi-occupied Europe in 1943 and 1944. Many of them show the details of the landscape beneath the plane and in some cases even show bombs falling away from the plane. The ones which really caught my eye though are ones like these scanned here which, although possibly useless for the purposes of military intelligence, give a singular impression of what it must have been like to fly on those horrific missions. Dates and places are given on all the photos, even those like these in which you can't see the ground and, poignantly, the name and rank of the photographer is also given.
