Our division historical preliminary research has spent an full week doing research in the national archives of londen. here our hostorici have made a big move by obtaining of important and mandatory source material to do research according to CV-VROO documents from the archieftoegang ÁIR 37' are a good example for this.
In regards the report of the állied expeditionary air force, later supreme headquarters allied expeditionary force' (air), and 2nd tactical air force. These 2nd tactical air force offered support to fighting troups by bombing tactical targets. The hazemaijerfabriek in Hengelo, Overijssel, was bombed in March 18th 1944 by squadrons with mosquito airplanes of the 140 wing. This factory produced elektrotechnical aquipment for the germans. By bombing the factory the allies try to interfere with this. In the picture below you are able to see what the result is of bombing. This áction photo' shows the damage and with the descriptions it becomes clear what exactly was hit.
During the war was this very valuable information for the allied and their operations and to this day this information is still greatly valuable. By analysing of such source material we can demarcate on drop-off ammunation way more specifically. Briefly, a nice source that helps us along with giving the right advice concerning OO.
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