How aerial photographs tracked down Hitler's flying bombs

[Shivetya]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23270332

[arethuza]

The picture of Constance Babington Smith at 2:08 has a wee model of a Me 163 rocket-powered fighter by her head!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Babington_Smith

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163

[silveira]

Some of these photos were 3D. There is a full documentary about it, "NOVA: 3D Spies of WWII": http://video.pbs.org/video/2247408348/

[bestham → silveira]

Also see the first episode of the BBC series, "Space race (2005)": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race_(TV_series)

It explains the 3D technology being used to spot the V2 site in Peenemünde in great detail.

[yellowbkpk → silveira]

This just showed up on Netflix : http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/70279456

It certainly kept my attention for an hour.

[jasonkester]

This could really benefit from a transcript with photos. I bet I could make it take up a lot less of my life than waiting for this narrator to slowly talk over a slideshow.

[robotmay → jasonkester]

Here's an article they published previously about the use of stereoscopic photographs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13359064

Also has a few nice little interviews/videos tied in to it, and there was a full documentary aired around the same time.

[antoviaque → jasonkester]

Or simply allow to accelerate the speed at which the video is played, like on Coursera/edX. This makes video a very efficient medium to learn.

[berkut]

They also helped in the "Battle of the beams" beforehand, as well.