Need Aerial Photos of Warsaw for 9.39 Painting

[Larry Hickey]

Hello

I'm soon going to be commissioning a series of about five major fine art paintings of the most important air combat events of the Polish Campaign of Sept, 1939 for a forthcoming major book series. Right now I'm looking for aerial photos of the Warsaw area that were taken from the late 1920s through the early 1940s, but definitely before Warsaw was badly destroyed during the 1944 uprising. Does anyone have or know where I can find reference material on this subject? One of the paintings will probably be one of the very early raids of Warsaw by the Luftwaffe with the incoming raid being engaged by the Polish Pursuit Brigade.

I'm also open to suggestions of other major events that could or should be portrayed in such a book series. The Radom area on Sept. 3rd?

Thanx

[Chris Goss]

I have some air recce shots taken in Sep 39

[Franek Grabowski]

Larry
There were several photos of Warsaw published in wartime German propaganda booklets. Also, I believe a series of aerial photos of Warsaw taken early 1944 is held in one of Warsaw's archives and I believe those photos are available on the net as previews.
Concerning important events, I am not sure what do you mean by Radom. Doubtless the first German kill of Neubert, and the first Polish kill of Gnyś are most important ones. Other battles indeed include Warsaw (but there is no last word said on colours of those aircraft), combat over Łódź on 2 September against ZG76, and I would say combat of Zatorski against three Soviet aircraft. This of course is the fighter aviation only.