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An aerial photo of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp was taken by a De Havilland Mosquito plane of the 60 Photo-reconnaissance Squadron of the South African Air Force operating from southern Italy on 31 May 1944 for bombing intelligence purposes. The photoreconnaissance plane was actually looking for the nearby IG Farben war-production factory and other war-production facilities in the area. The photo materials of this sort were shared with the US 15th Air Force.

The initial photographic analysts missed the significance of the photograph; it was identified in the late 1970s and analyzed by the CIA in 1978 (the labels are from that analysis). Smoke can be seen coming from Crematorium V, indicating that a group of new arrivals had recently been gassed.

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current	22:24, 28 February 2006	800×643 (119 KB)	Goodoldpolonius2 (Talk \| contribs)	(An aerial photo of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp was taken by taken by the 60 Photo-reconnaissance Squadron of the South African Air Force operating from southern Italy on 31/5/1944 for bombing intelligence purposes. The photoreconnaissance pl)