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Re: PR photo that almost stopped operation Market-Garden
Dennis,
Thanks for the enlightment on NEW works published about the Market-Garden operation. I have read almost ALL books writen by Martin Middlebrook ( a Historian I trully admire ), but did not know about this new work. I will certainly have a careful look at it. BUT from what you say, HE also did not check the ORBīs for that day....Why? Such Historians do have access to them...Why one would forget the name or even to include those ( just one for us would be enough...) pictures on a book about the Operation? Those pictures ARE famous and almost stopped the whole operation! It seems strange to me too that they were "fake" photos. It seems that nobody gave them the right credit they deserved at that time. It would be nice to check IF they exist and who took it on that PR mission...
CHRIS GOING: Really wonderful to share with us the career of Sir Urquhart. I will try to find out the New York Review Book to check his interview. Do you have it with you or do you only remember to have seing it?
If I well remember seeing some photoplash during bombing of Germany and France by RAF planes, the name of the pilot and even the Squadron DID appear on the photographs. I even remember seeing information about the direction and wind velocity + coordinates of the target! Incredible, isnīt it?
May someone who has the ORBīs for 541 or 542 Squadron could help us. It seems it was a "fighter" ( at least this word was used on my portuguese version of the book ). I guess perhaps a 16 Squadron perhaps...Who knows?
Will try to figure out more about that...Thanks for your kind answer and for sharing your info.
Adriano
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