[Photo] USAAF intelligence aerial photograph of the Auschwitz I main camp at Oświęcim, Poland taken 4 Apr 1944. This is a scan of an enlarged print taken from the original negative and captioned by the CIA in 1978.

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USAAF intelligence aerial photograph of the Auschwitz I main camp at Oświęcim, Poland taken 4 Apr 1944. This is a scan of an enlarged print taken from the original negative and captioned by the CIA in 1978. ww2dbase

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ww2dbaseUnited States Army Air Force

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David Stubblebine

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1 Jan 2006

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WW2-Era Place Name	Oświęcim, Poland
Lat/Long	50.0265, 19.2041

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