German propaganda photograph captured by the RAF. RAF Caption: Crashed aircraft near ...

Place Europe: Germany, Berlin
Accession Number P02025.200
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made Germany
Date made c 1944
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

German propaganda photograph captured by the RAF.
RAF Caption: Crashed aircraft near Berlin.
After a recent terror attack on the capital a great number of enemy again shot down. The ruins of a four-engined British terror bomber, which has found its deserved end.

The photograph shows the wreckage of a Lancaster MkI or MkIII aircraft, probably of No. 83 Squadron RAF, squadron code letters OL, lying in a field, probably near Berlin.