Unidentified photographer
1945, September
How Malaya's "Invasion" Photographs were taken

Photograph
Imperial War Museum
Catalogue number: A 30770
 
How Malaya's "Invasion" Photographs were taken. September 1945, Ceylon. 888 Squadron Royal Navy took the photographs from which the maps for the invasion of Malaya were made. The East Indies carrier borne no 888 Squadron, equipped with Hellcat aircraft specially fitted for carrying out photographic reconnaissance work, photographed over 100,000 square miles of Siam, Malaya, and Sumatra. They flew mainly at oxygen height of 30,000 feet, though they also had to photograph the Malayan coast repeatedly, which involved low flying in aircraft which were not armed for combat.
 
The Photographic Officer supervising the fitting of prints into a mosaic.
 
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