It happened on the same day, when German battleship, Bismarck sunk Hood, the pride of the British fleet at coasts of Greenland. On May 24th, 1941, the Royal Hungarian 1./3. TF flying squadron conducted aerial photography over the recently occupied Serbian capital, Beograd. With these pictures the Hungarian High Command wanted to refresh the outdated sections of the Third Military Survey (made before 1914.) The photographed area overstreched the current borders of Hungary, they flew over Serbia, western Romania and Southern Transylvania. It was very likely that these countries were forgotten to inform about this action.
This is how the Serbian capital looked like from a bird’s eye view on
may 24th, 1941. According to the shadows on this picture we can tell
that the photos was taken early in the morning, from which the cartographers later
joined this 6065/3 section. We still see traces of war, even from this
height. The middle of the railway bridge, overarching the Danube towards
the Banat is missing. The bridge I. Alexander leading to Zemun is also
disappeared, probably sunken in the Sava river.
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| Fig. 1. Section 6065/3 Beograd. Archives of the Hungarian Military Museum |
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