I found this image in a library book recently. Does anyone know where it is? Is it still extant? The caption to it give Dover as the location, but no other facts.
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Last edit: 22 Feb 2022 16:16 by netcompsys.
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It looks like one of the bofors towers we covered in some detail a few years ago. Depending on the book it might be a stock photo rather than a specific Dover location? I have a feeling I scoured the Dover area when looking for bofors towers but then again they are easy to miss.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
One reason for putting the image up is that I have never seen a tower that looks like this. I suspect that at the very least that 'angle' is fake as are the, to me, painted on windows. Britain needs propaganda: " we are prepared for tip and runs" so has to publish something to prove it but at the same time doesn't want to give the enemy anything like a true image, I'm guessing.
This is what I started with. The book is called "1944. The Second World War In The Air In Photographs" Compiled by L Archard, published by Amberley, p.17. It is one of a series covering each year of the war. A lot of the photos are the usual common fare with only the occasional one new to me, at least. Reproduction is generally poor.
I knew you guys would come up good!
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Interesting to see the regimented storage of equipment under the door to the ammunition store on a raised platform with pickaxe to left and to right ,By the book i presume would i wonder some of the gear be water bucket and stirrup pump for fire purposes i wonder what the two pickaxes were for ?
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