Google Earth has added a mass of historical aerial photos to their photo library. Check out the demo HERE. It should come as no surprise that there are extensive historical archives of aerial photos of both London and Berlin, dating from the early forties. I notice that the photos of Berlin are from the US archives, but the photos of London are from a nebulous "Georinformation Group". I wonder if they prefer not to give an image credit to Nazi Germany? Or maybe I'm just being silly. I am sure that the RAF took lots of photos of London from the air.
The Berlin archive is particularly chilling. There are photos from 1943, before the heaviest allied bombing of the city, and again form March 1945, just before the Nazi surrender. There are whole neighbourhoods reduced to rubble between the two views. I am sure that London could offer some equally disturbing imagery, but the archive only has one set of images, so you can't do before and after.
I look forward to Google adding more images. Time travel is cool!
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