WWII Clandestine Photo Reconnaissance

[Dave Lefurgey]

To Wise62:
Yup. Have that book already, but thanks for letting me know. If you're interested, I've found about 28 books so far that talk about Cotton and my uncle. Have found a couple of references, but am still looking for any that give more than a brief mention of Ian Fleming and nothing yet on Sir William Stehenson. Cotton and Fleming remained friends after the war and it was Cotton who referred Fleming to his own heart specialist. Fleming later died of a heart attack. If anyone is interested, the following are books I've found on Cotton & my uncle, so far:
- 'Air Spy' by Constance Babington Smith (she was a photo interpreter in the unit Cotton started for that purpose)
- 'Above All Unseen' by Edward Leaf
- 'Aviator Extraordinary' by Sidney Cotton as told to Ralph Barker
- 'Evidence In Camera' by Constance Babington Smith
- 'Eyes of the RAF; A History of Photo Reconnaissance' by Roy Conyers Nesbitt
- 'History of the RAF' by Chaz Bowyer
- 'JARIC: History' booklet by the Joint Aerial Reconnaissance Intelligence Centre
- 'MI6' by Stephen Dorril
- 'MI6; British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909-45' by Nigel West
- 'One of the Few' by Group Captain J.A. Kent (personal friend of Bob Niven's)
- 'Photo Reconnaissance' by Andrew J. Brookes
- 'RAF Squadrons' by Wing Commader C.G. Jefford MBE RAF
- 'Secret and Personal' by F.W. Winterbotham (he was the RAF/SIS/MI6 agent who officially recruited Cotton and my uncle)
- 'Seek and Strike: The Lockheed Hudson in WWII' by Andrew Hendrie
- 'Spies In the Sky' by John Taylor and David Monday
- 'Targeting the Reich; Allied Photo Reconnaissance Over Europe, 1939-45' by Dr. Alfred Price
- 'The Bruneval Raid' by George Millar
- 'The Eye of Intelligence' by Ursula Powys-Lybbe
- 'The Last Plane Out of Berlin' by Jeffrey Watson (Australia)
- 'The Life of Ian Fleming' by John Pearson
- 'The Nazi Connection' by F.W. Winterbotham
- 'The Ultra Secret' by F.W. Winterbotham (the book that first brought the ENIGMA Project into public awareness)
- 'The Ultra Spy' by F.W. Winterbotham
- 'Top Secret Tales of WWII' by William B. Breuer
- 'The Secret War' by Charles Fraser-Smith
- 'Very Special Intelligence; The Story of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945' by Patrick Beesley
- 'Wings Over Calgary' by Bruce Gowans (about Niven on his home scene, not Cotton)
- WWII Photo Intelligence' by Colonel Roy M. Stanley II, USAF
There are probably more that I haven't come across yet, but most of these name both Cotton and Niven.