Image: Halifaxes over Brest Dec 1941 IWM C 4109

Description: IWM description : "Vertical aerial photograph taken during a daylight attack on German warships docked at Brest, France. Two Handley Page Halifaxes of No. 35 Squadron RAF fly towards the dry docks in which the battlecruisers SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU are berthed (right), and over which a smoke screen is rapidly spreading.". IWM gives photgraph label as "Handley Page Halifaxes of No. 35 Squadron RAF bombing the German battlecruisers SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU in dry-dock at Brest, France."
Title: Halifaxes over Brest Dec 1941 IWM C 4109
Credit: This photograph C 4109 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author: Royal Air Force official photographer
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