Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Photographic aerial reconnaissance especially of military targets.
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- noun photography The making of
aerial photographs as a means ofmilitary reconnaissance , especially of potentialtargets .
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Examples
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Instead, Mitscher aimed for Okinawa, striking opportune targets and conducting photoreconnaissance there on March 1.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Therefore, photoreconnaissance versions of the B-29 also began arriving in October.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Therefore, photoreconnaissance versions of the B-29 also began arriving in October.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Instead, Mitscher aimed for Okinawa, striking opportune targets and conducting photoreconnaissance there on March 1.
Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010
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Like almost all other raids on industrial targets—and this was an industrial target, a murder mill for creating and then disposing of corpses—these strikes, as Air Force historian Richard G. Davis points out, would have had to be spread out over a number of weeks in order to confuse enemy defenses, assess bomb damage by photoreconnaissance, and adjust mission planning to take into consideration changes in enemy defenses.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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Persistent cloud cover prevented photoreconnaissance planes from gaining a complete picture of the destruction that Allied bombing had wrought.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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Persistent cloud cover prevented photoreconnaissance planes from gaining a complete picture of the destruction that Allied bombing had wrought.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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It was founded more on faith than fact—on incomplete or erratic data, most of it gathered from photoreconnaissance conducted over a part of the world that lay under perpetual cloud cover for great parts of the year.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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It was founded more on faith than fact—on incomplete or erratic data, most of it gathered from photoreconnaissance conducted over a part of the world that lay under perpetual cloud cover for great parts of the year.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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Unknown to Woodward, Air Force photoreconnaissance planes had recently been reporting alarming evidence of a resurgence of German fighter strength.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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