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Air Commodore John McCauley
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
Air Commodore John Patrick Joseph McCauley, CBE, Deputy Chief of Air Staff, Royal Australian Air Force.ART27584
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Air Vice-Marshal George Jones
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
Depicts a caricature of Air Vice Marshal George Jones, CBE, DFC, MID, Chief of Air Staff, RAAF (also previously in First World War, No 4 Squadron AFC )ART27583
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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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Anvil Chorus
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey
A cartoon depicting the figure of the Russian dictator, Joseph Stalin, wearing an apron and carrying a scythe, using a hammer and anvil to form a Nazi symbol, the swastica. The cartoon comments on Rus...ART92383
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Arpad Maleter
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts portrait of Hungarian soldier, Arpad Maleter, sitting, side profile smoking a pipe, arms crossed, in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was...ART27827
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A Sagan Goon Box South Side [Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a Goon Box at a POW camp in Germany, backing onto a forest of trees. Goon Boxes were sentry boxes on stilts, stationed at regular intervals around POW camps in Germany during the Second World ...ART96062
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Back them up!: A British tank attack in the Western Desert
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
This British Second World War poster depicts a British Matilda tank in the foreground, with guns ablaze, leading a convoy of others. To the left of the poster, a German tank burns, with German soldier...ARTV02305
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Back them up!: A raid by "Hudsons" of the Coastal Command on German shipping at Aalesund, Norway, in which eleven ships were hit
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Maker: Turner, Charles Edward H.M. Stationery Office Chromoworks Ltd
Reconnaissance on the morning of 29 October 1941 informed Allied air forces of a large concentration of German shipping assembling in the harbour of Alesund (here 'Aalesund'), Norway. On the following...ARTV02302
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Back them up!: Britain's new Airborne Army goes into action in Europe
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Maker: Oliphant, Leslie H.M. Stationery Office Thomas Forman & Sons Ltd
This British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office on behalf of the Ministry of Information. The poster depicts Allied soldiers and gliders going in to battle in Europ...ARTV02295
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Back them up!: The bombing in daylight of the power station at Knapsack, Germany, by the Royal Air Force
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Maker: Gardner, James H.M. Stationery Office Chromoworks Ltd
On 12 August 1941, a flight of Bristol Benheims were sent on a daylight raid to bomb power factories at Knapsack and Quadrath, near Cologne. This poster depicts a stylised version of these events, by ...ARTV02299
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Back them up!: The capture of the German submarine U570 by a Lockheed "Hudson" of the British Coastal Command
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Maker: Krogman, William H.M. Stationery Office Chromoworks Ltd
U-570 (later HMS Graph) held the curious title of the only German U-boat captured by an Allied aircraft, and was the only U-boat to serve for both the Allied and Axis powers during the Second World Wa...ARTV02298
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Back them up!: The R.A.F.'s intensive bombing of Germany's war industries continues
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Maker: Nockolds, Roy H.M. Stationery Office
British poster depicting the RAF'S intensive bombing of Germany's industries. The subtitle is 'The RAF's intensive bombing of Germany's war industries continues'. Two Lancaster bombers are seen flying...ARTV06888
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Baton of Shame, or Whose Turn Is It? TASS No. 741, 19 June 1943
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Maker: Denisovskii, Nikolai Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS)
A Russian propaganda poster produced through the Telegraphic Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) based in Moscow. This narrative-style poster shows Hitler promoting Friedrich Paulus to the position of F...ARTV07486
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Britain's air offensive: RAF attacks on Germany
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office
This British war poster shows a map with enlarged inset of the Ruhr area in Germany. Red bombs indicate places where the RAF have attacked.ARTV03850
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Britain - Spearhead of Attack
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Maker: Blake, Frederick Donald [S.L. : S.N., N.D.] (LEEDS : ALF COOKE LTD.)
This British Second World War poster depicts an illustrated map of the United Kingdom and north-western Europe - particularly France, Germany, and a few other, smaller occupied countries. The poster...ARTV02331
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British bombers have carried out over 1,600 raids on Germany up to May 1941
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Maker: Unknown
This British war poster depicts Vickers Wellington bombers in action.ARTV08564
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[Country landscape with houses and cows near Oflag VIB, Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a number of buildings with red roofs, behind a green fenced paddock containing cows. OFLAG VIB was a POW camp in Dossel, Germany, in use from 1940-45. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter,...ART96061
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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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Die Weltkarte mit dem Kolonialbesitz der grossen Machte [World map with the colonial possessions of the great powers]
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Maker: Unknown Unknown Unknown
A German map of the world showing the pre-Second World War extent of the empires, colonies and mandates of Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Belgium and Holland.ARTV09276
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Ein Jahr Kreig 1 September 1939 bis 31 August 1940 [One-year war 1 September 1939 to 31 August 1940]
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Maker: Unknown Unknown Unknown
Depicts a map of Europe and North and East Africa produced in Germany during the Second World War showing the the Axis position at the end of August 1940. It shows the German air and sea blockade of B...ARTV09275
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Ferenc Torr
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
German Army Hungarian soldier in army barracks, Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Red stripe on sleeve indicates that they were eligible for officer school. Subject is Hungarian officer cadet. Note: ...ART27847
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Forward to Victory
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Maker: Brule Unknown
Second World War poster depicting British soldiers in the foreground charging with their guns towards retreating Germany Army Soldiers in the background.ARTV05079
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Forward to victory [dogfight]
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Maker: Great Britain Royal Air Force
British Second World War poster. Image of a dogfight dominates the poster. In the foreground is an RAF Spitfire while in the background a German aeroplane is plunging downwards on fire trailing a clou...ARTV05065
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Forward to victory [dogfight]
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Maker: Great Britain Royal Air Force
British Second World War poster. Image of a dogfight dominates the poster. In the foreground is an RAF Spitfire while in the background a German aeroplane is plunging downwards on fire trailing a clou...ARTV05066
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French Officer, ex Prisoner of War
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Portrait of an unidentified French officer, wearing a kepi. He is a recovered prisoner of war.ART26621
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Frigyes Raffay
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts a portrait of Frigyes Raffay, an Hungarian soldier in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was captured by the Americans and held a POW in Ro...ART27830
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Gyorgy Ramusi
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts a portrait of Hungarian soldier Gyorgy Ramusi in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was captured by the Americans and held a POW in Romelly...ART27824
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[Head of German prisoner in concentration camp]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Head of prisoner in German concentration camp. On 13 April 1978 Nolan stated that he had made this work in London approximately one month after visiting concentration camps in Germany.ART91371
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Hiteriada Furiosa
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Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw Markiewicz, Antoni F W Dobereiner
'Hiteriada Furiosa' is a series of twelve offset lithographs published by Antoni Markiewicz, and printed in an edition of 1450 by Emil Falcon for FW Döbereiner, Hamburg in 1946. Created towards the en...ART96184
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Hiteriada Macabra
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Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw Markiewicz, Antoni F W Dobereiner
'Hiteriada Macabra' is a series of ten offset lithographs published by Antoni Markiewicz, and printed in an edition of 1450 by Emil Falcon for FW Döbereiner, Hamburg in 1946. In 'Hitler Macabra' the ...ART96183
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Hitleriada Macabra and Hitleradia Furiosa
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Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw
Bound copy of Hitleriada Macabra and Hitleradia Furiosa cartoons by Stanislaw Toegel published by Antoni Markiewicz, and printed in an edition of 1450 by Emil Falcon for FW Döbereiner, Hamburg in 1946...AWM2016.257.1
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Keep the enemy in the dark : be careful what you say or write
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Maker: [S.L.] : RECRUITING PUBLICITY BUREAU, UNITED STATES ARMY, 1944
This American Second World War poster depicts a soldier in the dark, being backlit with his arms in surrender. There were many campaigns during the Second World War to urge silence and security aroun...ARTV05561
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[Landscape with river and bridge near POW camp, Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a landscape in Germany with trees, a river, and brick bridge near a prisoner-of-war camp. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In late 1936 he joined the RAAF a...ART96059
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Libya: Help Them Finish The Job
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Maker: Wootton, Frank H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
As an Italian colony from 1911, Libya was of great strategic important during the North African campaign. This battle would result in an Allied victory on 13 May 1943. This British Second World War ...ARTV02294
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Loading up at dusk
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Maker: Unknown
This British war poster shows a photograph of airmen loading bombs into a Vickers Wellington bomber. The caption reads: 'One of the new 2,000-LB. super high-explosive bombs ready for yet another raid ...ARTV08661
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Looking South Stalag Luft III [Sagan, Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a building in the Stalag Luft III POW Camp, behind which is a forest of trees. Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run POW camp in Sagan, Germany, for captured allied airmen. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-...ART96065
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North gate - Sagan Germany
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts the North gate of a POW camp in Sagan, Germany during the Second World War. Behind the gate stand two men and a single storey building. Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run POW camp in Sagan fo...ART96067
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No second chance...
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Maker: Kirby, Rollin
American Second World War poster to promote investment in war bonds. The illustration is about the atrocities of war, depicting people being pushed by German soldiers into a snow bound cattle car for ...ARTV05890
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OFLAG VIB [Dossel, Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts inmates walking between buildings at the OFLAG VIB POW camp. Oflag VIB was a POW camp in Dossel, Germany, in use between 1940-45. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceram...ART96069
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Over the Target
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A night bombing scene showing the Halifax bomber over a German industrial city of the Ruhr. Red "target indicators" dropped by a Pathfinder are visible - one is falling and the other having fallen - f...ART23426
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[portrait of Frederick Jarman]
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Maker: McMillan, Alex
Frederick Morgan Jarman (420951) served with the Royal Australian Air Force, trained in Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme and subsequently flew with 161 RAF Squadron. This Squadron flew out ...ART96908
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Put It There
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Maker: Strube, Sidney Her Majesty's Stationary Office The Admiralty H. Manly & Son
During the Second World War there was a strong push on the home front throughout Allied nations to stress the importance of factory workers, whether they worked on ships, munitions, or food. This Brit...ARTV02383
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recto: Newsmap SouthWest Pacific Vol.3 - No.14...; verso: Inside Japan
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Maker: Information and Education Section USAFFE U S Government printing office
Newsmap SouthWest Pacific Vol.3 - No.14 published 6th April 1945. It features the headline 'Tenth Army Invades Okinawa, 325 Miles From Japan'. On the verso are images taken by an American tourist in J...ARTV02695
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recto: Newsmap SouthWest Pacific Vol.3 - No.09...; verso: Japanese infantry weapons
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Maker: Information and Education Section USAFFE U S Government printing office
Newsmap SouthWest Pacific Vol.3 - No.09 published 29 March 1945. It features the headlines 'Capture of Walled City Frees Manila' and 'YANKS DRIVE TOWARD COLOGNE' with an illustrated feature identifyin...ARTV02686
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Rolling down to the working face: the tunnel, Stalag Luft III
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Maker: Comber, Albert
A prisoner on a trolley going through the tunnel to the working face at Stalag Luft III in Sagan Germany. Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) was a German prisoner of war camp in Sagan (Sagan b...ART34781.015
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Russia's fight is ours!
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Maker: LONDON : H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE, 1941 (LONDON : WM. BROWN & CO.)
British Second World War poster issued by the Department of Information in 1941. It is a reproduction of four separate Soviet War posters, each depicting Russia's strong determination to destroy Hitl...ARTV05117
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Sagan (East)
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a forest of trees. The Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run POW camp in Sagan, Germany, for captured allied airmen. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In late ...ART96073
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Sagan [Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a clearing behind which is a forest of trees. The Stalag Luft III was a Luftwaffe-run POW camp in Sagan, Germany, for captured allied airmen. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmak...ART96074
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Sagan Germany
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts the entry gates to the POW camp at Sagan in Germany, with trees and buildings in the background. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In late 1936 he joined the...ART96058
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Save for the brave
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Maker: Brenner, A LONDON : NATIONAL SAVINGS COMMITTEE ; EDINBURG : SCOTTISH SAVINGS COMMITTEE, [N.D.] (LONDON : FOSH & National Savings Committee Scottish War Savings Committee Fosh & Cross Ltd.
This British Savings Committee issued poster depicts the sinking fo the Australian hospital ship Centaur. 'Save for the brave' was a slogan used to encourage civilians to put money into the war saving...ARTV01506