16 Squadron Strike Photographs 1945

Here a collection of Beaufighter nose camera photographs obtained from 16 Squadron war diaries archived in Pretoria, as well as private collections of 16 squadron pilots.

Please click on the heading of each mission to go to the detailed page of that particular mission to view the relevant war diary pages as well as how the target location appears today via Google earth images. (work in progress, not all pages finished yet!)

If you know of pilots who flew with 16 squadron in this time and are in possession of their log books/photo albums, please contact me as it would be great to add to this web site as a tribute to those brave airmen of past glory.

If you or your ancestors lived in any of the villages/target areas and have some information or interesting stories related to these attacks please let me know and we can then add the information to the site in an effort to preserve this important history.

I also have the high resolution version of these photographs.

Tinus le Roux