The Survey of London is now part of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England which has 3 million records and photographs of historic buildings, files on 150, 000 archaeological sites and complete coverage of England in air photographs.
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The island was mapped from air photographs taken by U . S . Navy Operation Highjump, 1946 47, and was named by Carl R . Eklund for Billie R . Lilienthal, U . S . Navy, aerographer at Wilkes Station, 1957.
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Copies of Royal Air Force aerial survey photographs of Scotland taken during the National Air Photograph Survey ( Operation REVUE ), flown from 1946-1950, were held from creation by the Scottish Office in a specially created Air Photograph Library in Edinburgh.
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The range was photographed from the air by U . S . Navy Operation Highjump and the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947 and mapped from these air photographs by D . Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960.
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The Collection was created in 2008 from the merger of The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives, held at Keele University, and the former Scottish Office Air Photographs Collection, held at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland ( RCAHMS ).
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Air reconnaissance of the Norwegian harbours had been hindered by weather, but information available showed German heavy units were probably moving northwards, and an air photograph of Trondheim late on 3 July confirmed " Tirpitz " and " Hipper " had sortied.
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For this work the Squadron received four congratulatory messages from XXXIII Corps-a mammoth photo-reconnaissance task had been carried out, 9, 555 prints were developed, and the Squadron well-deservedly praised'for skill and speed with which air photographs have been produced and dropped on forward troops . '"
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They were plotted from Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions ( ANARE ) air photographs, and were named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Captain B . T . Hansen, master of the " Nella Dan " for ANARE relief voyages in 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1972.
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The innumerable sources and agencies included refugees from Axis occupied countries, members of the various resistance groups, Allied personnel dropped by air into enemy held countries who then transmitted their information by portable wireless sets, raids conducted on the French coast for a specific purpose, air photographs, neutral newspapers, mail censorship, air reconnaissance, interception of enemy wireless radio broadcasts and countless others.
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Its chronological and geographical coverage documents the face of Britain dating from 1919 to recent years, providing evidence of a period of change and includes the largest and most significant number of air photographs of Britain taken before 1939 . The collection covers the countryside, industrial and urban landscapes, archaeological sites and historic buildings and charts the growth of new towns and the spread of motorways across the landscape.
