Photographic reconnaissance after a recent attack by Bomber Command

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Photographic reconnaissance after a recent attack by Bomber Command

Photographic reconnaissance after a recent attack by Bomber Command, RAF on a tank farm at Gien in Occupied France furnishes an excellent example of the accuracy of British bombing against military objectives situated close to residential areas.
Gien is approximately 80 miles south of Paris, and,
in the absence of any particular landmark, is difficult to find.
Nevertheless, the small force of bombers detailed for the
attack, succeeded in locating and accurately bombing the target, and the photographs reveal damage to the " farm"
out of all proportion to the small number of aircraft employed.
Before the fall of France the Tank Farm at Glen was used as a French Ordenance factory to fit out tanks with their operational equipment - gun turrets, wireless apparatus etc - after they had
It has been taken over there for since by the Germans and several thousand tanks have already left there for various fronts. As the work is done entirely by German
technicians, the only casualties in this atttack should have been Germans, as no bombs fell outside the target area, which adjoins a considerable residential district.
Photo shows - Gien Tank Farm after the attack.
August 1942

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Daily Mirror
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Gien
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