Royal Air Force Handley Page O/400 bombers at Coudekerque Airfield, Dunkirk, France
20 April 1918. Lieutenant David McLellan
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The Royal Flying Corps, and its successor the Royal Air Force, made considerable use of photography in aerial reconnaissance missions - but their photographers also recorded the rapid evolution of the service during the course of the First World War.
Lieutenant David McLellan, formerly a photographer with the Daily Mirror, was one of the most talented. His photograph of Handley Page bombers at Dunkirk, 20 April 1918, is a record of the birth of the Royal Air Force’s strategic bombing force.
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