Word: photographed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photograph of a rare outdoor night scene showing long, slim, spindle-shaped pillars of fire apparently streaming into the sky was last week turned up by Scientific American. Taken by an amateur photographer at Wilbur, Wash., it was a picture of the meteorological phenomenon called "pillar halos." One authority on the physics of the air, Dr. William Jackson Humphreys of the U. S. Weather Bureau, pronounced it the best picture of pillar halos he had ever seen...
...photograph of the lady in tights, carrying my wife's name, is a fake, without even a remote resemblance to justify the blunder...
Berlin's Illustrierte Zeitung last week got around to publishing the photograph purportedly taken by a Nazi fighting plane which followed a Nazi bomber in the first air raid on the Firth of Forth three weeks ago. A cloud of smoke was shown over the cruiser Edinburgh, described as a bomb striking the ship's port side aft of the second funnel. Official British account of the Firth of Forth raid maintained that Edinburgh was not hit directly, but suffered seven casualties when fragments flew aboard from bombs striking the water nearby. Where there is smoke there...
...more dramatic and specific than this blurry photograph was a series of drawings made by Artist Theo Matejko for the official German Army journal Die Wehrmacht. They represented "official German eyewitness accounts" of the bombing of Ark Royal during an air raid on the British Home Fleet in the North Sea last September. Official British report by Prime Minister Chamberlain: "No British ship was damaged. . . . All of them, Ark Royal included, are carrying out their normal duties, sublimely unconscious of these rumors...
Released meanwhile in Berlin was a photograph of Pilot Carl Francke, "the German aviator who achieved the remarkable act of destroying an English airplane carrier in the North Sea, and who was decorated by Field Marshal Hermann Goring with the Iron Cross, first and second class, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...