Camera Saves Lives
WASHINGTON. July 25.
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, the President’s second son, who is chief of combined Allied photo reconnaissance in North Africa, at a Press conference, described precision bombing teamed with aerial reconnaissance as the best answer to the question of hew to win the war. Colonel Roosevelt flew over Rome securing photographs which were later used to distinguish military and non-military points of the Rome raid He added that camera eyes had saved untold thousands of lives in Pantellaria and Sicily because they mads possible precision bombing which knocked out Axis air forces before the beginning of the invasion. He added that photographs were handed to the military authorities’ 40 minutes after the landing of the photographic plane.
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Northern Advocate, 26 July 1943, Page 2
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