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File:Operation Jericho - Amiens Jail Breached.jpg

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English: Operation Jericho. A PRU picture of the Amiens Prison taken shortly after the raid, showing breached perimeter wall and damage to the prison buildings. Note: the ground is white due to the presence of snow.

IWM Cat C 4737 description "Operation JERICHO: the daylight raid by 18 De Havilland Mosquito FB Mark VIs of No. 140 Airfield, No. 2 Group, led by Group Captain P C Pickard, to free resistance members awaiting execution in Amiens Jail, France. Low-level oblique photographic-reconnaissance aerial taken two days after the raid, showing the damaged prison from the north, and with the breach blown in the north wall visible in the right foreground"
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Imperial War Museum - picture scanned by me Ian Dunster 18:58, 18 September 2005 (UTC) from: Mosquito At War by Chaz Bowyer - Ian Allan - 1977 - ISBN 0-7110-0474-9 and credited to: Imperial War Museum.

Original uploader was Ian Dunster at en.wikipedia 18 September 2005 (original upload date)
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Damage caused by air raid on the gestapo prison of Amiens, February 1944

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