ABSTRACT
Italian State in 1964, and 283,005 Royal Air Force (RAF) photographs deposited with the AFN by the British School at Rome in 1975. The historical significance, the image quality and the completeness of the associated information make this the most important collection of World War II aerial photographs in Italy (Shepherd et al. 2012). Recent research (Ceraudo and Shepherd 2010) has also revealed that at least some of the AFN images are not duplicated in other archives (for example in The Aerial Reconnaissance Archive TARA/NCAP and the National Archives and Records Administration NARA; see Cowley et al. 2010, 2013, Cowley and Stichelbaut 2012, Hanson and Oltean 2013). A complete survey of AFN’s MAPRW collection, with the identification of duplicate photos, is now in progress (Figure 12.1).
