A fascinating article. Highly recommended! — Douglas
Spies in the Skies: How Aerial Surveillance Tipped the Balance of WWII via Gizmodo
When General Werner von Fritsch, the then commander-in-chief of the German Army, predicted in 1938 that “the military organization which has the best reconnaissance unit will win the next war,” few doubted that, in aerial reconnaissance and photography, the Luftwaffe reigned supreme. This, however, proved to be far from the case.
Although the Germans began World War II with an efficient air reconnaissance and photographic interpretation system, they did not develop or improve it as the conflict widened and progressed. Though starting from far behind, the British, in contrast, were to bring about a revolution in aerial photography and air intelligence that was to play a vital part in transforming the fortunes of the war. As the RAF slowly began to gain air superiority over the increasingly hard-pressed Luftwaffe, nothing, it seemed, escaped the probing of its
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