RAF Strike Reconnaissance Photograph – Sunken Vessel Debris Field – STR/010, 13 June 1944

Description

RAF Recon Photo – D-Day Reconnaissance Wreckage (STR/010, 10 June 1944) – Original Air Ministry Print

📷 Mission: STR/010 – Strategic Reconnaissance
📅 Date: 10 June 1944 (D-Day +4)
📍 Location: 50°06’N, 00°27’W – English Channel
✈️ Altitude: 100 feet
🔎 Subject: Confirmed wreckage & debris field from a destroyed enemy vessel/aircraft
🖨️ Type: Original wartime Air Ministry photographic print
📝 Markings: Full edge codes, frame 41, Q.280 F6/3 exposure data

A rare low-altitude reconnaissance photo taken just four days after D-Day, capturing the floating wreckage of a destroyed German aircraft or vessel in the English Channel. Prints from STR-series missions are scarce, and low-level wreckage confirmations like this are even harder to find — especially with full frame markings, coordinates, and mission data intact.

Perfect for collectors of RAF intelligence material, naval/aviation historians, or anyone building a D-Day reconnaissance archive.