Swedish reconnaissance flights during WWII (using Italian-built Caproni S 16 aircraft).

An interesting mosaic of oblique reconnaissance pictures of the Usedom-Peenemunde peninsula.

Several reconnaissance flights were flown from Everod, in southern Sweden on patrols over the Baltic Sea waters north of Peenemunde. Caproni S 16A, military serial 3307, individual no. 2 from Flygflottillj F 11 based at Nykoping was normally used. On 28 August 1943 the Royal Swedish Air Force’s reconnaissance service ordered a crew to carry out a reconnaissance over German harbours to be prepared in the case of an invasion from the sea. Some of the most interesting German achievements were lined up at Peenemunde, which attracted Swedish attention. 10,000 scientists and technicians were busy at that time in Peenemunde installations, and this aroused a keen interest. Many interesting subjects could be observed on the base, such as Luftwaffe’s rocket powered interceptor Me 163 and flying bomb Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1). On one of such flights the S 16A made out in a big industrial shed a missile that had aborted on its launch, viz. an Aggregat A-4 (V-2) of the German army.