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Interior of mountain aircraft assembly line tunnel, Germany – Historic Reproduction

Interior of mountain aircraft assembly line tunnel, Germany, 1945 — historic photograph
Interior of mountain aircraft assembly line tunnel, Germany, 1945. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This view looks down the length of a tunnel cut into a mountainside in Germany, where aircraft were assembled in 1945. In 1944 and early 1945, Allied bombing campaigns pushed German aircraft production underground, moving work into rock tunnels, mines, and caves that were harder to hit from the air. The photograph was taken by the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe, whose teams documented such sites as Allied forces advanced. The record's details are unverified, but the picture still shows how far the Germans went to keep their war industry running.

Created / published1945
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by USSTAF, Morgan & Gaston. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,191 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114220

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