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Ground Target Recon Photos Index

By Mike Sholo

Have you ever missed not having the reconnaissance photo in your mission folder when you approach your objective? Have you had to switch to the secondary (or tertiary) target and have no idea what it looks like?

Here you will find almost all the aerial reconnaissance photographs of the targets attacked by the 8th AF on your missions.

Award

Created by

Mike Sholo
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Category: Maps or Levels

Languages: English

Posted

Updated

6 Feb, 2024 @ 6:10am

2 Apr, 2024 @ 8:45am

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Guide Index

Overview

Acknowledgments and Credits

Orientation

Air Bases

Special Weapons sites

Aircraft & Component factories

Oil Production facilities

Industrial Complexes

Marshalling Yards & Rail Junctions

Ports and Harbors

Bridges

Goverment Buildings

Miscellaneous Targets

Comments

Acknowledgments and Credits

I had the idea of creating this guide step-by-step for a long time, but the hard reality is that it is a huge job for just one person.

Thanks to GT182, who gave me the reference to the extinct website "bombs-away", and searching on it, I found another similar and also extinct one (v7th Reccon Group), where recreating the aesthetics of the ground base from the game,

they followed up on the campaigns of those pioneer players who played the classic, shared information and experiences of the classic game, and in which some hard-working pilots already took the reconnaissance screenshots you are getting now.

Warning! They belong to the classic game; it is possible that some objectives or terrain have been modified in the Redux.

So the work here is not really mine (just uploading the photos to the guide), but rather those who dedicated their time to doing it many years ago.

The website recognizes the players "v1stLT 14th Corps, v1stLT Hoop2, v1stLT Joel R and v1stLT Misha who flew all the reconnaissance flights", so, although on Steam they will now use any other nickname, the merit and recognition remains to them.

Orientation

All photos were taken from South to North (North at the top of the image) unless otherwise specified.

Air Bases

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3156176499

Amiens Luftwaffe Airbase
Augsburg Airbase
Avord Airbase (Tours)
Basdorf Airbase
Beaumont-le-Roger Airbase
Bergen Airfield
Biblis Aerodrome
Bordeaux Airfield
Cazaux Airbase
Chatearoux Airbase
Chateaudun Airbase
Cherbourg Airbase
Conches Airfield
Denain Airfield
Dijon Airfield
Eisenach Airbase
Evreux Airfield
Friedrichshafen Airbase
Gessertshausen Airbase
Gotha Airbase
La Rochelle Airbase
Lansburg Airbase
Lechfeld Airbase
Memmingen Airbase
Munich Airbase
Orleans Airbase
Rostock Airbase
Roye Airbase
Saint-Jean-d'Angely Airbase
Ulm Airbase

Special Weapons sites

Abbeville V Weapon site

Bois de Lenfer V1 site

Marquise Special Weapons site

Marquise Special Weapons site B

Siracourt V1 site

Watten Special Weapons site

Wizernes Special Weapons site

Aircraft & Component factories

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3156134655

AGE Factory
Anklam Adado Aircraft Factory
Basdorf Aero Engine Factory
Bremen Focke Wulf Factory
Brunswick Aero Industry Factory
Brunswick Bomb Factory
Gotha Aircraft Works
Halberstadt Bomber Factory
Kassel Aero Engine Factory
Marienfelde Aero Engine Works
Oraniengurg Heinkel Aircraft Plant
Osnabruck Aircraft Factory
Regensburg Aircraft Component Factory
Regensburg Messerschmitt Complex
Solingen Airframe Factory
Steyr Aircraft Works
Tours Aircraft Factory
Tutow Aircraft Works

Oil Production facilities

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Bethune Oil Production Facility
Bohlen Oil Production Facility
Bottrop Oil Production Facility
Bremen Oil Refinery
Brux Oil Production Facility
Castrop-Rauxel Oil Production
Eurotank Oil Refinery & Storage
Gelsenkirchen Oil Production Facility
Hamburg Oil Refinery & Storage
Harburg Oil Production Facility A
Harburg Oil Production Facility B
Harnes Oil Production Facility
Heide Oil Production Facility
Hoesch Oil Refinery
Homberg Oil Production Facility
Kamen Oil Production Facility
Leuna Oil Production Facility
Lieven Oil Production Facility
Magdeburg Oil Production Facility
Merkwiller Oil Production
Misburg Oil Production Facility
North Blechhammer Oil Production Facility
Reisholz Oil Production Facility
Rositz Oil Production Facility
Ruhland Oil Production Facility
Salzbergen Oil Refinery
Scholven Oil Production Facility
South Blechhammer Oil Production Facility
Sterkrade Holten Oil Production Facility
Wanne Eickel Oil Production Facility
Wesseling Oil Production Facility
Zeitz Oil Production Facility

Industrial Complexes

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AGO Flugzeugerk AG
Alkett Tank Plant
Auto Union AG Military Vehicle Factory
Bessemer Steelworks
Bingen Industrial Complex
Bonn Industrial Complex
Bordeaux Merrignac Vehicle Repair Facility
Borsig Factory
Bremen Industrial Complex
Buessing Factory
Cologne Industrial Complex
Daimler Benz Factory
Demag AFV's Duren Industrial Complex
Duren Steelworks
Dusselodorf Industrial Complex
Elberfield Ball Bearing Plant
Ford/Gm Plant Frankfurt Industrial Center
Halberstadt Steel Factory
Henschel Factory
Hiddernheim Engine Factory
Lakomotiv Armored Vehiches
Ludwigshaven Chemical Factory
Ludwigshaven Rubber Factory
Mainz Ordnance Depot
Mannheim Industrial Complex
Maybach Industrial Facility
Nationale Automobile
Oschersleben Steel Works
Osnabruck Industrial Center
Reunuckendorf V1 Engine Plant
Rheinmetal Borsig AG T.A.P.
Robert Bosch AG Plant
Schweinfurt Ball Bearing Works A
Schweinfurt Ball Bearing Works B
Schweinfurt Ball Bearing Works C
Schweinfurt Ball Bearing Works D
Schweinfurt Ball Bearing Works E
SKF Instrument Factory
Solingen Engine Factory
Solingen Steel Works
Spandau Neustadt Ordnance Depot
Stuttgart Ballbearing Factory
Telefunken Lorenz-Tempelhof
VKF Ball Bearings Works
Wesel Steelworks
Wildau Torpedo Plant

Marshalling Yards & Rail Junctions

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3156187415

Aachen Rail Junction
Belfort Rail Junction
Bielefeld Rail Junction
Brugge Rail Junction
Colmar Rail Junction
Cologne Marshalling Yard
Cologne Rail Junction
Courtrai Rail Junction
Dijon Rail Junction
Duren Marshalling Yard
Duren Rail Junction
Frankfurt am Main Marshalling Yard
Frankfurt am Main Rail Junction
Ghent Rail Junction Hannover Marshalling Yard
Kassel Marshalling Yard
Kassel Rail Junction
Koblenz Marshalling Yard
Koblenz Rail Junction
Lingen Marshalling Yard
Luxembourg Marshalling Yard
Lyon Rail Junction
Mainz Marshalling Yard
Munster Marshalling Yard
Roulers Rail Junction
Stuttgart Rail Junction

Ports and Harbors

Bremen Harbor

Brest Harbor

Brest U-boat Base

Cherbourg Harbor

Hamburg Harbor

Le Havre Harbor

Ludwigshaven Harbor

Nantes Harbor

Saint Nazaire U-boat Harbor

Wilhelmshaven Port

Bridges

Aldenhoven Road Bridge

Arnhem Rail Bridge

Bullay Road Bridge

Diilligen Road Bridge

Euskirchen Rail Bridge

Friedburg Road Bridge

Grevenbroich Rail Bridge

Haslach Rail Bridge

Remagen Rail Bridge

Yonne River Rail Bridge

Goverment Buildings

Air Ministry

Civil Service

Foreign Office

Kriegsmarine HQ

OKW Army headquarters

Propaganda Ministry

The Reichstag

Miscellaneous Targets

Munster Communications

Osnabruck Communication Center

St Lo Troop Concentration

Tours Bomber School

12 Comments

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Tofof 24 Oct, 2024 @ 12:32pm

I have versions of many of these that are annotated with lengths of specific buildings so that you can calculate the length of your bomb train and use the intervalometer to make sure you hit what you want. https://imgur.com/a/fr1gQgq

Mike Sholo [author] 22 Jun, 2024 @ 5:19pm

I got the message and sent an email right now.

GT182 22 Jun, 2024 @ 2:22pm

Sorry I didn't see the request you sent. I've sent you a message Mike. Hopefully we can talk by phone if possible. .

Mike Sholo [author] 10 Jun, 2024 @ 9:17am

Hello GT182. The photos I am uploading are the ones you mention, from the databack of the V8thOps website, hehe, so they are all taken with north facing up. As I said at the beginning, it's only me who uploads the content, but other people did the work.

When I started this guide (a little forgotten at this point) I sent you a friend request that you probably didn't see.

Send me a request and we'll chat privately ;)

GT182 10 Jun, 2024 @ 8:54am

Mike, when I was with the original V8th Ops, on the Bombs-Away website, new recon photos were made with North at the top to make it easier to plan your bombing run. I have to find them as I have them all saved from the original B-17 game by Micro Prose, but still have to find them. I even shared being the co-commander of the group with Wolfman from the UK. We made op missions for the guys to run and with an award system to increase their rank. But only for those that joined V8th Ops.I even had V8th Ops hats made back then for the members.
If there's a way you can get my email, I'll send the recon photos from back then to you.o
If no one remembers, when Bombs Away came out in 1999 or 2000 it was the most expensive flying game on the market at $45.95. It was the start of all these flying and bombing games we have now. It ran on Windows Millennium before XP came out. I don't think my original dice would even work today.

Mike Sholo [author] 19 Feb, 2024 @ 10:02am

Thanks. I hope this help to enjoy the game.

Stadl0r 18 Feb, 2024 @ 1:50am

This is amazing work! I've been using this for an online campaign test, you're welcome to join via discord if it interests you. I posted a thread in the main discussion.

Mike Sholo [author] 16 Feb, 2024 @ 3:02am

I think so, hehe. Unfortunately, at that time my level of English was not sufficient to participate there, but it's great that I was able to recover the lost information now ;)

Thanks!

Bobcat_Cal 15 Feb, 2024 @ 6:46pm

Man, does this thread bring back memories. Nice work!

Mike Sholo [author] 9 Feb, 2024 @ 9:13am

The guide of Aircraft & Component factories is now complete.

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