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This booklet is dedicated to the work of the Mediterranean Allied Photographic Reconnaissance Wing for their assistance in the liberation of Rome on June 4, 1944. The pictures included were taken show important sites in Rome that were not damaged due to the strategic bombing which was possible with photographic reconnaissance. The booklet also includes some of the processes, men, and maps involved.

Bulletin Vol. I, No. 1 Contains two monthly bulletins of the MAAF.

Monthly Air Intelligence and Operations Bulletin.

This folder contains papers concerning surveillance in the Mediterranean, including flight information. There are also daily information summaries from the Office of the Operations officer from the Mediterranean Allied Photographic Reconnaissance Wing, outgoing messages , and photographic interpretation reports from Yugoslavia to Italy and Germany. Papers concerning bombing and information collected from flights are included in this folder. There are folders containing information and images of the surveillance from Italy, Hungary, and Romania.

This folder has several reports: 1) Mediterranean Theater of Operations AAF Evaluation Board Report Vol 1. Part III: "Effectiveness of Steps for Bad Weather Operations of Heavy, Medium and Fighter Aircraft ." 2) Flak defenses of strategic targets in Southern Germany. 3) Two page list of interrogations from April to July 1945 of German leaders, many from aviation industries. 4) Franklin D'Olier, " United States Strategic Bombing Survey: European and Pacific War." 5) U.S. - "Strategic Bombing Survey: European War List of Reports." 6) Henry Alexander interview of Hermann Goering on 062945: Goering discusses the organization and planning of German aircraft production, the effect of Allied attacks of aircraft production, causes of Luftwaffe defeat, selection of Allied air targets for attack, Luftwaffe commanders, and the production of the ME-262. These reports were collected by Jack Robson for Bud Markel at Maxwell on 060789.