NCAP Features

NARA Digitisation Programme See the aerial photography made accessible every month.
Missing in Action Learn how NCAP aerial photographs are helping to locate lost service personnel.
Finding Aid Digitisation Programme 2019 See the global aerial photographic coverage unlocked by our digitised finding aids.
How to use Second World War finding aids How to find not-yet-digitised aerial photography from the Second World War.
Plotting and Reporting Recording the coverage of aerial photographs: Banda plots, Interrogation Reports and Pilot's Traces.
Dunkirk 1940 Aerial photographs taken during the evacuation from France.
The Dambusters Raid Aerial photography of Operation CHASTISE.
The D-Day Landings D-Day: 6 June 1944.
Operation CROSSBOW Aerial photographic hunt for German secret weapons.
Operation MARKET GARDEN Airborne assault on Dutch bridges in September 1944.
How to read Finding Aids How to read sortie plots to find not-yet-digitised aerial photographs
How to use OS finding aids How to find not-yet-digitised OS aerial photography of your area of interest in Scotland.
Project ROBIN Looking over the Iron Curtain.
Hunting the Bismarck The photograph that sank a battleship.
Airfields The anatomy of a military airfield.
Bridges Aerial photography of the common forms of bridge.
Hydro Power Stations The anatomy of a hydro-electric power station.
Barracks The anatomy of a military camp.
Oil Refinery The anatomy of an oil refinery.
Steelworks The anatomy of a steelworks.