INTERPRETATION REPORT NO. K. 1338
                                
                Photographs taken by 1 P.R.U. on
                             7.6.42
                                
                          Sortie A/896
                                
                    Contact Scale:1/9,650 (F/36")
                    Flying Height:29,000'
                    Time of photography: 18.00 hrs.
     LOCALITY: EMDEN.
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT.
     The whole of the town and docks are well covered on prints of excellent quality and good
scale.
 
PERIOD UNDER REVIEW.
     The last detailed Damage Assessment Report on EMDEN was No. 1276 of 16.3.42.
 
GENERAL STATEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF DAMAGE.
     Damage is equally divided between industrial buildings in the dock area and the residential
and business part of the town.  This is probably the most successful attack which has been made
on EMDEN.  In addition to the considerable damage in the town, important industries have
suffered severely, notably the NORDSEEWORKE, HERINGSFISCHEREI A.G., SCHULTE and
BURNS, and the area around the MAIL RAILWAY STATION.  Damage is by H.E. and fire, the
latter predominating.
 
DETAILS OF DAMAGE.
1.   INDUSTRIAL (including PORT AND RAILWAY FACILITIES).
 
VEREINIGTE STAHLWERKE A.G. (NORDSEEWERKE).
 
     The Shipbuilding and Repair Yards, have suffered heavily, 10 acres being devastated.
     A large newly constructed shop in the N. of the works has been gutted.  Two other large
shops in the S.W. corner of the works are also gutted and seen still burning.
     Two other shops nearby are entirely destroyed and a third half destroyed.  In the S. area a
long erecting shop is half gutted, a pair of ships is severely damaged by fire.
     In addition at least 8 similar sheds in the whole town area of the works have been
destroyed.
 
EAST SIDE OF BINNENHAFEN.
 
     On the ZUNGENKAI a row of warehouse has been destroyed and around the ALTER
LIEGE HAFEN 4 dockside sheds of the HERINGS FISCHERIE were severely damaged prior to
13.3.42 (not previously reported); 2 warehouses along the dockside have been destroyed.
     Five small RAILWAY buildings, probably workshops and stores, N.W. of the roundhouse
are gutted and a direct hit by a large bomb has damaged another several tracks and 2 or 3
waggons on the GOODS SIDINGS.  There is another crater on disused lines N. of the
Roundhouse.
     North of the RAILWAY DOCK, the HARBOUR OFFICES and the CUSTOMS HOUSE
are both destroyed and at the MAIN RAILWAY STATION, 2 buildings probably Station Offices
are also gutted.  A long shed and a smaller
               /building N.E. of the