AN AERIAL VIEW OF CAEN RAILWAY STATION AND THE BAILEY BRIDGES OVER THE ORNE RIVER [Allocated Title]

Filming from a Taylorcraft Auster light aircraft from 652nd AOP Squadron (?), the cameraman surveys the two Class 40 bridges ("Winston" and "Churchill") laid across the Bassin de L'Orne by Royal Canadian Engineers, co-linking the centre of Caen on the west bank of the Orne with the industrial suburbs on the east. The aircraft provides a good viewing platform from which the destruction suffered by Caen and its railway station, the Gare de L'État, at the hands of RAF bombers, 1st Corps artillery and the Royal Navy's battleships and cruisers can be seen.

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