ABSTRACT
These examples all draw on the considerable volume of vertical aerial reconnaissance photographs taken for military purposes during the war itself, but more recent studies have also begun to use post-war images to examine aspects of World War II conflict and its immediate post-war legacy. In France, for example, these include studies of post-war PoW camps (Early 2013, Mytum and Carr 2013) and the authors’ own work on the archaeology of the German logistics network in northwest France and the efforts of Allied strategic and tactical air forces to bomb the supply depots (Passmore et al. 2013, 2014, Capps Tunwell et al. 2015). These investigations have been greatly facilitated by the aerial photographic archive administered and made public by the Institut Géographique National (IGN): here we return to this archive in order to extend the analysis of conflict and post-conflict landscapes in northwest France, with particular reference to sites associated with the Normandy Campaign and the wider array of German military infrastructure.
