28th Mar, 2018 10:00 GMT/BST

Militaria & Ethnographica

 
  Lot 137
 

137

Nine Annotated Folders, Arial Photographs and Maps of Potential German Third Reich Bombing...

Nine Annotated Folders, Arial Photographs and Maps of Potential German Third Reich Bombing Targets in the Vicinity of the River Forth, all marked "Secret" (Geheim) and variously dated March - November 1939, comprising:
Queensferry (Forth Bridge and Oil Storage Facilities) - Dossier, two aerial photographs and two maps;
Tranent (Macmerry) - Dossier and two maps of the airfield;
Donibristle - Dossier, aerial photograph and map of the airfield
Edinburgh (Granton Harbour Basin) - Dossier, two aerial photographs and two maps;
Turnhouse - Dossier, two aerial photographs and two maps of the airfield;
Edinburgh (Leith Gasworks) - Dossier, two aerial photographs and two maps
Grangemouth (Fuel Storage) - Dossier, one aerial photograph and one map;
Grangemouth (Large Fuel Depot) - Dossier, aerial photograph and two maps;
Grangemouth (N) (Fuel Storage) - Dossier, two aerial photographs, one map and three pages of typewritten notes

Footnote: These items are accompanied by an Edinburgh Evening News article, dated January 29th 1972, outlining the history of their "liberation" from the Luftwaffe Headquarters in Munster by the then 26-year-old R.A.F. Flight Sergeant William Rennie

Sold for £420
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 28th Mar, 2018

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