ANNEX FORCES AND TIME REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE PROPOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE PROGRAMME 1. First Priority It is estimated that the force required to obtain basic cover on the scale 1: 50,000 (with selected areas at 1: 15,000) of Germany, Austria, Hungary, France, the Low Countries, Czechoslovakia and the industrial areas of Poland West of the Vistula in three summer months would be 7 squadrons of Mosquito aircraft or 2½ squadrons of bomber aircraft. 2. Second Priority The time which it would take one squadron of bombers to obtain basic cover on the scale of 1: 50,000 is estimated to be as follows for each of the following areas:(a) Areas of Germany and Occupied Italy not 1 summer month already photographed (b) Bulgaria and Roumania 2½ summer months (c) Norway and Denmark 2½ summer months (d) Greece and Turkey 4½ summer months (e) Spain and Portugal 3½ summer months (f) Sweden 2½ summer months (g) Switzerland 2 weeks 3.
- Collection ID
- CAB81
- Conflict
- Second World War
- Countries
- Austria Austria-Hungary Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark France Germany Greece Hungary Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey
- Document Reference
- CAB 81/129/5
- Document Types
- Report
- File Reference
- CAB 81/129
- Identifier
- 10.1080/swwf.cab81.0129.005
- Keywords
- Aerial Reconnaissance Photographic Reconnaissance Reconnaissance Aircraft Topographical Intelligence Intelligence Gathering Intelligence Requirements Mapping Geographic Intelligence Armistice Occupied Germany Security Foreign Policy Diplomacy Occupied Austria Anglo-soviet Relations
- Languages
- English
- Organizations
- Chiefs of Staff Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
- Pages
- 3
- Persons Discussed
- Victor Cavendish-Bentinck Francis Inglis Edmund Rushbrooke John Sinclair
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Themes
- Surveillance
