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[Aircraft bombardment]
Art
Maker: Hall, Alan
A group of men in a small boat coming under air attack. The artist Alan Hall enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second World War he served on sever...ART93353
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Aircraft supporting wolf pack raid
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Maker: Norton, Frank
View from unknown naval warship of aircraft bombing enemy troops.ART40052
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Air raid, Cape Gloucester, New Britain
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Maker: Simon, Sidney
This work shows a group of United States Army combat engineers bathing when an air raid occured at Cape Gloucester in New Britain, January 1944.ART29423
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Air strike, Korea
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Maker: Norton, Frank
This is one of 15 art works completed by Frank Norton on his first patrol along the West Coast of Korea. In the foreground is the destroyer HMAS Warramunga which Norton joined from 27th June until 27t...ART40009
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Alert
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts troops and civilians in Haifa moving towards shelter during an alarm for an air raid. A small newspaper clipping pasted to the front of the drawing reads "Air Raid Alarm in Haifa: An air raid...ART30289
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Allied air offensive against Germany
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office J Weiner Ltd
A British Second World War poster illustrating the Allied air offensive against Germany up until 1st January 1941. This British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office...ARTV02271
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Allied air offensive against Germany
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office J Weiner Ltd
A British Second World War poster illustrating the Allied air offensive against Germany up until 1st January 1941. The poster features a map of Germany with an enlarged inset of the Ruhr area and Be...ARTV03851
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Allied air offensive against Germany
Art
Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Weiner, J
A British Second World War poster illustrating the Allied air offensive against Germany up until 1st January 1941. This British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office...ARTV02199
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All the fine young men: My father, Stan, was Eric's friend...
Art
Maker: Evans, Roslyn
This work illuminates how great events in history, such as war, affect the intimate and private parts of a family's history. It contains two sections: screenprinted images on paper in the background, ...ART29767.002
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A.M.C. on fire
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Armed Merchant Cruiser (ex Blue Funnel Liner) on fire and sitting on Colombo Harbour bottom as the result of a Japanese air-raid a day or so previously. Smoke fills the right side of the image. Drawn ...ART23453
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Australia whilst under fire
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Maker: Hall, Alan
Depicts three sailors huddle under a table during an attack on their ship. The artist Alan Hall(1919-1979) enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Secon...ART93338
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Bombed building, Labuan
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Maker: Newton, Max
Depicts the wreckage of a bombed building in Victoria Town, Labuan. The wreckage partially reveals the interior of the buildling. A bulldozer works to gather the rubble and fallen masonry for airstrip...ART26809
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Bomber Command memorial
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Maker: Dawson, Neil
The Bomber Command memorial commemorates the service and sacrifice of the RAAF air and ground crew who served and died with Bomber Command during the Second World War. It contains specific references ...ART92683
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Bomber's moon
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Depicts an Avro Lancaster bomber squadron flying over enemy targets. Search lights are directed on the bombers from the ground and they are withstanding heavy anti aircraft fire.ART27553
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Bullecourt under shell fire, April 1917
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Maker: Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Depicts a landscape scene of Bullecourt, Western Front, under shell fire. Daryl Lindsay was the youngest member of the talented Lindsay family that included the artists Lionel, Norman, Percy and Ruby....ART02966
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Calling In
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Four Afghan Northern Alliance soldiers with an American Special Forces. The American, wearing a baseball cap, uses a radio to call in airstrikes. Gittoes' notes of this work include: 'Explosions were ...ART91935
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Commemoration: Darwin and Australia's north withstand Japanese air offensive
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Maker: Unknown Department of Veteran's Affairs
Advertisement for the commemoration of Darwin and Australia's north withstanding Japanese air offensives. A reproduction of a Memorial image, AWM157291'Naval personnel battling a blasing oil tank dur...ARTV09178
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Corner of Bond and Bruton Streets
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
View of wrecked buildings on the corner of Bond and Bruton Streets in the West End after an air raid. Despite being recommended by Arthur Streeton as an official war artist for the First World War, Me...ART26910
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Das ist das Heil, das sie bringen! (That is the salvation, that they bring)
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Maker: Heartfield, John Heartfield Archive and GDR Government
A skeleton hand with bomber planes issuing from its five fingers, raised imposingly over the destroyed city with bodies of dead children in the foreground. This work was horribly prophetic when first ...ARTV09077
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Day and nightmare, drawing for cartoon in 'The Daily Telegraph'
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Maker: Mahony, Will
Refers to the 'night raids' on Germany by RAF bomber command, when German cities were being bombed around the clock. Goebbels, Goering and Hitler are cowering in the bunker.ART94327
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Daylight raid, Darwin
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley
The subject is a daylight raid over Darwin during the Second World War. The aircraft, distant in the vast sky, are depicted in small blue brushstrokes. They are surrounded by dispersed patches of d...ART30153
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Drawing for headpiece for '-Twirps, one, for the use of-' in 'H.M.A.S. Mk II' 1943
Art
Maker: Rafty, Tony
Two men wearing helmets on the deck of a ship watch as another ship in the distance is bombarded by planes. One plan crashes into the sea.ARTI03580
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Enlist
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Maker: Unknown NSW Government W A Gullick, Government Printer
This is an unusually delicate and subtly printed Australian recruiting poster. However, the beauty of the composition and colours belies the violent and tragic subject matter. It features a raid by tw...ARTV01155
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Flying Fortress
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A Boeing B17 Flying Fortress is depicted getting refueled at 7 Mile Drome, New Guinea, in preparation for an air raid on Rabaul. A dummy gun is pictured to the right.ART29960
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Glass panel from Bomber Command memorial
Art
Maker: Dawson, Neil
The Bomber Command memorial commemorates the service and sacrifice of the RAAF air and ground crew who served and died with Bomber Command during the Second World War. It contains specific references ...ART92683.001
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Glass panel from Bomber Command memorial
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Maker: Dawson, Neil
The Bomber Command memorial commemorates the service and sacrifice of the RAAF air and ground crew who served and died with Bomber Command during the Second World War. It contains specific references ...ART92683.003
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Glass panel from Bomber Command memorial
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Maker: Dawson, Neil
The Bomber Command memorial commemorates the service and sacrifice of the RAAF air and ground crew who served and died with Bomber Command during the Second World War. It contains specific references ...ART92683.002
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HMAS 'Australia' [kamikaze attack]
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Maker: Hall, Alan
Three sailors running out of the way of a Japanese aircraft and kamikaze attack. HMAS 'Australia' was the first ship to be hit by the suicide attacks during the Second World War and the ship went on t...ART93352
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[Incoming kamikaze attack]
Art
Maker: Hall, Alan
A spilt scene of an incoming kamikaze attack and the sailors' reaction upon HMAS 'Australia'. The artist Alan Hall enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During t...ART93354
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Japanese 'Betty' bombers over Moresby
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Japanese 'Betty' bomber aircraft are depicted flying over Port Moresby, New Guinea.ART29992
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[Kamikaze attack]
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Maker: Hall, Alan
A comic strip of an attack upon Royal Australian Navy ships by Japanese aircraft. The artist Alan Hall enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second Wo...ART93357
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[Kamikaze attack]
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Maker: Hall, Alan
A comic strip of an attack upon Royal Australian Navy ships by Japanese aircraft. The artist Alan Hall enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second Wo...ART93356
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Koepang sketch
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scene in war-damaged Koepang, the principal town in Dutch Timor. Koepang was in Japanese hands for most of the war period and suffered from Allied air raids.ART26171
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Kuyurudh [arrow head formation]
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Maker: Nona, Matilda
'Through this print I tell of my connection to the World War 2 stories. Through the eyes of the island women on ground, planes were seen passing above in the formation of the arrow. This formation is ...AWM2016.401.4
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1000 lb bomb crater and house
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a large crater with debris in the foreground. A building on stilts with open walls in the midground and trees to the left and sky in the background. It was used as sleeping quarters by the Are...ART23739
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Lingayen Gulf
Art
Maker: Hall, Alan
A comic strip of an attack upon Royal Australian Navy ships by Japanese aircraft. The artist Alan Hall enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second Wo...ART93355
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Night, Air operations room, HQ Milne Force
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Dargie noted, "Drawn during an air raid, this drawing shows the Duty Officer of the night on the lefthand side of the drawing, below him the plotting table, and to the right, a Sergeant on the telepho...ART22079
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OO! Look! Rockets!
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Maker: Hall, Alan
A group of sketches depicting responses and reactions to Japanese kamikaze attacks. The artist Alan Hall (1919-1979) enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During...ART93335
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Pilot Officer James Clark
Art
Maker: Kennington, Eric Henri
Head and shoulders portrait of James Clark DFC AFC MID, service no. 402439. As Squadron Leader with 460 Squadron RAAF Clark was leading a force of eighteen Lancasters despatched by the Squadron on a...ART90949
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[Prussian officer and man with air raid in progress]
Art
Depicts a figure of a Prussian officer and a man, possibly the British Prime Minister, standing on top of a hill, with surprised expressions on their faces, while airplanes circle around them and over...ART02423
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recto: akir raid; verso: the magnoon mare
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Fourteenth page of the sketchbook titled, 'Pocket Book No 2 containing 18 notes, material & pictures,' which was used by George Lambert. A sketch of a figure after a raid and search at Akir appears on...ART11394.014
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RJG: Air raid Alexandria 1 (Variant)
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Maker: Green, Denise
'Drawing with my Father’s Photos' is a series of works by Denise Green where sliced slivers of drawings of meandering, intricate marks intersect black and white wartime photographs. The photographs we...AWM2017.1205.2
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RJG: Bombardment of the wharf at Piraeus (Variant)
Art
Maker: Green, Denise
'Drawing with my Father’s Photos' is a series of works by Denise Green where sliced slivers of drawings of meandering, intricate marks intersect black and white wartime photographs. The photographs we...AWM2017.1205.1
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"Road Recce"
Art
Maker: Gilmour, Ronald L
Depicts two 77 Squadron Meteors attacking enemy transports on the mountainous road into Wonsan on the east coast.ART94232
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Rockets!
Art
Maker: Hall, Alan
Depicts a group of sailors on watch as another ship in the convoy in the distance comes under attack from aircraft overhead. The artist Alan Hall (1919-1979) enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RA...ART93351
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Starlight Steve interrupts a friendly game
Art
Depicts a group of officers in uniform playing cards in the billet at Albert on the Western Front. They are about to be interrupted by 'Starlight Steve', a notorious German nocturnal raider. Will Dyso...ART02315
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St George in the East, Stepney
Art
Maker: Meeson, Dora
This 18th century Anglican Church was hit by a bomb during the Second World War Blitz on London's docklands in May 1941. Meeson's watercolour illustrates how the apse remained intact, as did much of t...ART26907
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The aeroplane [Stunting]
Art
Maker: Proctor, Thea
This work depicts an aeroplane caught in searchlights in, presumably, the city of London. Blacked out buildings flank the image. In 1918 Proctor was situated in London and could see the lights from th...ART93177
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The air raid
Art
Maker: Cross, Stan
An elderly man stands with one arm around his wife's waist, while in the other he holds the dead body of a young girl. At the couple's feet lies the body of a young woman in a pool of her own blood - ...ART19737
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The Inner Temple
Art
Maker: Meeson, Dora
Depicts Bomb damage to a London building during the Blitz. Bricks, wood and other building debris litter the street. Despite being recommended by Arthur Streeton as an official war artist for the Fir...ART26912
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The Jeep and the Air Raid Alarm
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
Through a clump of palm trunks a jeep can be seen on one of the tracks running through the area of Headquarters, New Guinea Force. The air raid alarm is an old petrol drum hung from a cross beam. Vari...ART21428
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The sigs go into action!
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A cartoon drawing of a group of soldiers running for shelter in a bunker while the war rages overhead.ART29864
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Thousand Bomber Strike
Art
Maker: Freedman, Harold
This is an imaginative canvas by Freedman created from a description given by Flight Lieutenant Peter Isaacson DFC, DFM, AFC, of the first thousand bomber raid on Cologne, Germany, May 1942. Of this w...ART26988
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Underground in an air-raid
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Maker: Hartrick, Archibald Standish
Depicts the Underground packed full of mostly men, women and children lying in heaps, a boy scout is keeping order. This was most probably during an early Zeppelin raid in 1915.ART50284
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U.S. Bell Aerocobra
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Three men are depicted 'gunning up' a Bell P39 Airacobra aircraft for a raid on Rabaul.ART29950
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War supply trains moving through Central Station, Brisbane
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
All southern supplies moving northward into the war zone had to be transhipped to narrow gauge rolling stock in Brisbane yards. Notice the concrete block-house air-raid shelters down the centre of the...ART25565