No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF
No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit was a flying unit of the Royal Air Force, first formed in 1940.
No. 1 Photographic Reconnaissance Unit RAF
A 1 PRU Spitfire in flight.
Frederick Sidney Cotton was an Australian inventor, photographer and aviation and photography pioneer, responsible for developing and promoting an early colour film process, and largely responsible for the development of photographic reconnaissance before and during World War II. He numbered among his close friends George Eastman, Ian Fleming and Winston Churchill.
Frederick Sidney Cotton c. 1941
Sidney Cotton's postwar Lockheed 12A