RAF Recon Photo – Lorient U-Boat Base Approach (La Perrière Lock), 1944 – Original Air Ministry Print

Description

RAF Recon Photo – Lorient U-Boat Base Approach (La Perrière Lock), 1944 – Original Air Ministry Print

📷 Mission: RAF Coastal/Strategic Reconnaissance
📅 Date: 1944 (D-Day period operations)
📍 Location: Lorient, France – La Perrière Lock & Basin
✈️ Type: Oblique reconnaissance image
🔎 Subject: Lock system, German barges, workshops, rail lines, access routes to the Keroman U-Boat Pens
🖨️ Print: Original wartime Air Ministry photographic print
📝 Markings: Film-edge codes and original sortie frame markings visible

A highly detailed reconnaissance photograph showing the approach to the Lorient U-Boat Base, including the La Perrière lock chamber, inland basin, German supply barges, crane platforms, workshops, and transport routes used to service the Keroman submarine pens. This area formed the essential logistics corridor for one of the most important U-boat bases in occupied France.

Original intelligence imagery like this — especially from the Lorient complex — is increasingly scarce and very desirable for collectors of WWII naval history, U-boat studies, and RAF recon material.