Here's a mystery about some archived WW2 D-Day imagery that a reader has sent my way. Once upon a time (October of 2001 roughly) Terraserver announced they were putting up some cool aerial photos of D-Day on their web site at
http://www.terraserver.com/ww2_images.asp
http://www.terraserver.com/ww2_images.asp
Apparently the images are not there any more, but they used to be found at:
http://web.archive.org/web/
http://www.terraserver.com/ww2_images.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/20020210142241
http://terraserver.com/ww2_images.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/
http://www.terraserver.com/ww2_images.asp
http://web.archive.org/web/20020210142241
http://terraserver.com/ww2_images.asp
Apparently some people still remember and mention these images. Example: http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=&DicID=19225&RefType=Encyclopedia
http://boards.cinemax.com/thread.jspa?threadID=263&start=75&tstart=0
http://www.31stwc.com/archived.html (white text on a white background -- hard to read!)
http://boards.cinemax.com/thread.jspa?threadID=263&start=75&tstart=0
http://www.31stwc.com/archived.html (white text on a white background -- hard to read!)
From the reader though... "But try as I might, I can't find them anymore." There's a UK web site: http://www.evidenceincamera.co.uk/ that is supposed to make available loads of WW2 Aerial Reconnaissance Archives, but the site is pretty thin on content and uses weird applets or something to view images. So... the reader would be interested in once again having access to these old images in digital form again, and would like to georectify them and put them online once more, likely as a Google earth overlay. Any leads or tips on these images are appreciated??
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