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A brisk day off Yokohama, HMAS Hobart
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flying the Royal Naval ensign, light cruiser HMAS Hobart is moored in Tokyo Bay, Japan. Mount Fuji is seen in the background symbolising Japan territory. In the foreground and under a brisk wind, a sa...ART25503
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A Concert in the Mess
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of the few members of No. 3 Squadron who played an instrument was one of the flight mechanics, Leading Aircraftman William Joseph (Chippy) Chipperfield, who would always bring his accordion along ...ART24444
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A daylight raid
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Australian Halifax aircraft on a daylight raid over Germany. This is the view obtained from a position immediately alongside the pilot and shown two of the powerful Bristol Hercules motors of a Halifa...ART22193
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A Driver
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of No.3 Squadron transport driver (unidentified) in cabin of truck. Internally many of the trucks still retained their buff-coloured camouflage from the Desert Campaign.ART23481
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A Flamer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Two men rush for cover while two aeroplances bomb a military truck.ART26548
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A hand of poker
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Flying Garry Munro Blumer 413517, 450 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force, who was shot down at one time before the German line North of Pescara. He was fortunate in meeting Ital...ART24439
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Alongside in Tokyo docks
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
vessel, warship, destroyer, sentry, harbour; RAN River Class destroyer HMAS Warramunga at wharf in, 40mm Bofors gun on deckART25678
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Altitude 21,000
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Lockheed Hudson bomber aloft in the clear coldness of the sub-stratasphere.ART23396
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A Mosquito
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A De Haviland Mosquito aircraft with RAF camouflage scheme, white and black stripes on lower fuselage, known as 'invasion stripes'. These indicate that this is after D-Day, 6 June 1944.ART23488
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Arming a Spitfire
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Spitfire at Laverton on the tarmac, being armed in preparation for a test flight and air to ground gunnery.ART22364
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Artillery Lieutenant (Lieutenant Graham)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Graham, RAA, who served in Crete and Syria, where he was wounded.ART21490
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"Attack!" Pilot of a Sikorsky "Kingfisher"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The pilot in the cockpit canopy of Sikorsky-Kingfisher thrusts forward the control column and dives his aircraft.ART23395
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At the Controls of a Bombay
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Squadron Leader Cyril Robin Broome, Commanding Officer No. 1 Air Ambulance, Royal Australian Air Force, part of wing and landing strut of transport aircraft used as air ambulance.ART24442
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At the Landing Strip
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
This painting shows No.3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force dispersal area at Vasto, Southern Italy.ART23458
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At the Wheel
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A man at the wheel of an Australian Merchant Ship or Australian Corvette HMAS Wagga. The bridge of these ships consisted mainly of a covered and glassed-in wheel house. Within this again the man at th...ART23584
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Australian commandos attacking Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, September 1943
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Dennis Adams was commissioned to depict Operation Jaywick, a bold raid by members of Special Operations Australia from Z Special Unit. Fifteen men under the command of a British officer, Major Ivan L...ART27649
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A Winter's Day
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
No. 450 Squadron (unidentified), pilots' mess in EPIP (European Privates' n Pattern) tent. Into one side of this the pilots had built a chimney from bricks. Firewood or coke was almost unobtainable bu...ART26115
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Baker, HMAS "Shropshire"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts an unidentified baker removing bread from oven on board the HMAS Shropshire.ART25675
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Beaufighter Observer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of an unidentified observer, part of interior of Beaufighter.ART23463
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Beaufighter pilot
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicting a pilot wearing 'Mae West' inflatable life jacket, holding flying helmet.ART23472
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Before Take Off
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Dean Stanton, an Australian RAAF pilot with the 37 Squadron RAF was painted by Adams getting some rest, hours before the night's bomber command operation in Serignola, Italy. He has pulled his leathe...ART22246
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'B' gun, HMAS Arunta
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
On board the deck of the HMAS Arunta, we see a view of a man standing beside a gun mounted in the 'B' position. The gun's machinery is shown in detail. Tribal class destroyer's built during the Second...ART25679
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Bluey, Flight Mechanic (Sergeant John Le Cornu)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Sergeant John Le Cornu, Flight Mechanic for 466 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force.ART23465
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Bomb Dive
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
'Bomb Dive' attempts to express the tense vibrant moment of an aircraft hurtling and screaming downward. It is a life-size composition. In the artist's words: "The suggestion of an aircraft cockpit is...ART27579
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Bombing up a Fighter Bomber
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A P-40N Kittyhawk of No. 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, is loaded with bombs in readiness for the next operation. Amourers are rolling a bomb trolley under the fuselage and hoisting a 500-p...ART23486
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Breaching of Amiens Prison
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Inside the grim walls of Amiens Prison, several hundred prisoners - many of them members of the French Resistance Movement - were known to be awaiting trial or execution by the Germans for their Resis...ART25687
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By the Fireside
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A pilot of No 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer 'Tubby' Shannon (either Alan Lancelot or David Eliot), relaxes in the Pilot's Mess. Cards and the writing of letters and reading ...ART24443
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Catalina Flying Boat
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Moored and swinging lightly on Maquarie Lakes, an Australian Catalina flying boat is checked by mechanics. The nose houses a turret for a machine gunmen and a 'venetian blind' covering the window for ...ART26958
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Catalina Rescue
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Members of the Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) rescue a Catalina forced down in the sea off Townsville.ART22236
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Catalina taking off
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Consolidated Catalina flying boat taking off on a patrol which may mean twenty hours or more in the air over enemy territory. In a letter to Lieutenant Colonel John Treloar - Officer in Charge of the...ART22339
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Commander James Morrow
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of James Cairns Morrow, DSO, DSC, Commander of HMAS Shropshire, Royal Australian Navy.ART25504
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Commodore John Collins
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Commodore John Augustine Collins, Australian Squadron Commander, HMAS 'Shropshire, Royal Australian Navy.ART25682
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Compass Platform, HMAS "Moresby"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
This painting shows Lieutenant-Commander Brown, RAN, and two of his officers on the fore-bridge or compass platform. From here the ship is commanded and navigated, orders are given to gun crews and en...ART23441
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Contact Port Outer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a Halifax Bomber taxiing on the runway.ART25691
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Control platform of a frigate
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
An engineer watches the control platform in the engine room of a frigate. He wears a sleeveless shirt to keep cool in the hot closed space. The artist was fascinated by the different jobs and working ...ART23476
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Convoy at Sunset
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts ships in a convoy leaving Moreton Bay, southbound to Sydney. A lookout in the foreground stands watch complete in his Australian Comforts Fund balaclava. This painting was done from HMAS "More...ART23586
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Convoy Escort
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
During the convoying of a number of merchant ships from Sydney to Moreton Bay, a fire broke out in one of the ships, the "Wang Lee On". HMAS Moresby escorted this ship into the shelter of Crowdy Bay w...ART23585
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Crew bail out!
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A chaotic scene inside a burning bomber captures crew members as they attempt escape. In this work Adams draws on his own experience of a crash landing: "The aircraft rolled completely over as it cras...ART25693
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Cruiser in Dock
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A drawing of the HMAS "Australia" in the large dock at Cockatoo Island. This sketch was made from a position on the floor of the dock alongside the keel ofthe ship looking aft and outwards. The screw ...ART21472
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Dakota Wireless Operator
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicting a wireless (radio) operator, W B Gordon, part of interior of Douglas C-47 Dakota aircraft, wearing flak suit jacket, Down Ampney.ART23469
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De-Briefing
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The procedures known as 'briefing' and 'de-briefing' were part of an airman's lot. Briefing occured shortly before an air operation - whether small or massive - when the participating crews were assem...ART26549
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Deck View "Monterey"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The artist depicts two soldiers in uniform, one smokes a pipe on deck of the USS vessel, the 'Monterey' a light cruiser which was painted by the artist in 1945.ART22975
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Depth charge, HMAS 'Swan'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
View from the rear deck of HMAS 'Swan' (1937-1962) showing a plume of water from an exploding depth charge in the ship's wake.ART22338
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Destroyer in Dock
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The flotilla leader "Tromp" of the Royal Netherlands Navy, in dry dock at Cockatoo Island, for repairs after being damaged in action in the Java Sea.ART23519
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Dive bombers attacking, fire from an Oerlikon
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of the three Oerlikon 20mm guns of HMAS Wagga in action against Japanese bombers at Milne Bay during daylight raids. In a letter to Lieutenant Colonel John Treloar - Officer in Charge of the Mili...ART22824
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Dornier Flying Boat
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A number of these Dornier DO 24 aircraft were flown to Australia by their Dutch naval pilots from the Netherland East Indies after the Japanese invasion of Java and Sumatra. Those which survived the f...ART21468
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Down through the night
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The pilot of a stricken aircraft who has just bailed out. Having exited head-first out of the escape hatch, he is free falling in the glare of searchlights. His right hand grips the rip cord handle r...ART22192
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Dusk, Tokyo docks, HMAS Arunta
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The dawning of a new day as HMAS Arunta is shown along side the dock in Tokyo.ART25676
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Dutch light cruiser 'Tromp' being refitted at Garden Island, Sydney
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The Dutch light cruiser 'Tromp' was at the cruiser wharf at Garden Island for refitting around October or November, 1943, when this painting was made. As with the United States ships yellow zinc chrom...ART22241
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Duty Pilot
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The Duty Pilot's job was a responsible one at a station like Richmond where aircraft were constantly landing and taking off. The position from which he controlled the coming and going on the runways w...ART21485
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Engine room, HMAS Wagga
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A study made in the engine room of HMAS Wagga, in Milne Bay. Australian corvettes have twin reciprocating engines which drive them at something about 14 knots. This shows the engineer officer at the f...ART21526
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Fighter Bomber Pilot
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flying Officer Neil (Dingle) Gordon McKernan, RAAF, was a pilot of No.3 Squadron. This portrait was painted whilst the squadron was at Vasto, Italy.ART23479
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Fire at Sea
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
HMAS Moresby escorting SS Wang Lee on to anchorage on the north coast of NSW in October 1942. While in a north bound convoy from Sydney, the "Wang Lee On", fully laden with valuable war material, catc...ART23442
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Flak busters
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicting an attack on a German "M" class minesweeper off the south coast on Norway by Australian rocket projectile Beaufighters based in Norfolk, England. They co-operated on many shipping strikes wi...ART22194
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Flight Commander
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicting a portrait of Flight Lieutenant Neil John Funston, No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.ART24437
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Flight Commander (Squadron Leader Ted Eagleton)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Squadron Leader William Edmund Eagleton, DFC and Bar, RAAF.ART22960
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Flight engineer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Part of the interior of a Handley Page Halifax bomber, showing seated flight engineer in flying dress.ART25689
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Flight engineer in the cockpit of a Handley Page Halifax bomber
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Part of the interior of a Handley Page Halifax bomber, showing seated flight engineer in flying dress. Study for 'Flight engineer in the cockpit of a Handley Page Halifax bomber (ART25689).ART22982
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Flight Sergeant Max Limb
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flight Sergeant Max Limb was a Wireless Air Gunner or Wireless Operator with a Royal Australian Air Force Catalina Squadron, operating from Cairns. Previously he had been with a Blenheim Squadron in t...ART21488
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Flight Testing
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Artwork features two Handley Page Halifaxes taxxing on an English airfield. A third is taking off in the background.ART23466
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Flying Fortress
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of a series of paintings done at 4 U.S Air Depot at Townsville. This was outside No. 1 Workshop Hangar where heavy bombers, "Flying Fortresses" and "Liberators", are repaired and overhauled. This ...ART22237
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Flying Officer Clyde Rolland
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Flying Officer Clyde Winston Rolland, who took part in the Test and Ferry Flights undertaken by the RAAF.ART22367
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Flying Officer Eric Hay
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flying Officer Eric Hay, No.683 Squadron, Royal Air Force, one of three Australians, including the Commanding Officer, on a photo reconnaissance squadron in Italy.ART24434
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Flying Officer Harry Shipley
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of 420284 Flying Officer Harry Shipley, an experienced pilot of No 3 Sqdn RAAF. The squadron was operating south of Rome on one occasion when Shiply called up on the Radio Telephone...ART21302
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Flying Officer Ian (Tiny) Wilkins
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait depicting Flying Officer Ian (Tiny) Wilkins (also know as Ian Ambrose Wilkins 406085), of the Royal Australian Air Force, No 31 Squadron. Flying Officer Wilkins took part in the Test and Ferr...ART22366
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Flying Officer James Kearney, Beaufighter pilot
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flying Officer, James Timothy Kearney, DFC, was one of the crack pilots with No. 31 Squadron and like various other pilots and navigators had joined Test and Ferry Flights after he finished his operat...ART23451
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Flying Officer J Miles
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A portrait of John Cecil Miles who was a pilot with the famous Boston 22 Squadron in New Guinea during the Second World War. In December 1943 when this portrait was painted Miles was a Test and Ferry...ART92076
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Flying Officer Ken Richards
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicting a portrait of Flying Kenneth Albert Richards, DFC, No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.ART24438
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Flying Officer Walter Hogg
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flying Walter Hogg, No 3 Squadron, RAAF, who was later shot down after an attack on Rimine on the Northern Adriatic coast of Italy.ART24433
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For'ard hanger, H.M.S. Glory
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The inside of a 'for'ard' aircraft hanger on board the Light Fleet Aircraft Carrier HMS Glory. Two men walk past the planes in the foreground. The majority of the composition is taken up by the restin...ART25684
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Frank Bagnall, Photographer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Frank Bagnall was a cine photographer of the Department of Information. This drawing was made at the Public Relations billets at Port Moresby.ART21504
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Gunnery Practice Instruction Room
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts the Gunnery Practice Instruction Room.ART22969
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Halifax dispersal point, UK 1944
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Handley Page Halifax bomber at its dispersal point, off the runway of the airfiled. Aircraft were scattered around the area of the aerodrome to minimise the damage from enemy action.ART23470
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Halifax the bomb Aimer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A bomb aimer in the nose of a Halifax bomber.ART22961
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Heavy Cruiser, USS Chester
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The USS Cruiser Chester in dock at Cockatoo Island for repairs after being struck by a Japanese torpedo.ART26997
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High Pressure Turbine, Sydney
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A sailor working on the high pressure turbine in a ship's engine room, Sydney.ART26551
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HMAS Australia at Bear Island
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
HMAS Australia (1928-1954), was based at Scapa Flow attached to the Royal Navy's Home Fleet. She joined H.M.S Norfolk in an operational task which took the ships well inside the Arctic Circle, to capt...ART27571
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HMAS Australia at Bear Island
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A side on view of the Heavy Cruiser HMAS Australia in the midground, with an expanse of sea in the foreground. In the background, another ship, seagulls and Bear Island, between the north coast of Nor...ART27638
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HMAS Australia in action, Guadalcanal, 8 August 1942
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts HMAS Australia (1928-1954) in action against a torpedo bombing attack during the Battle of Savo Island. HMAS Australia is being attacked during the allied landing of forces on Guadalcanal Isla...ART22189
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HMAS Melbourne
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A side on view of HMAS Melbourne at sea and in action. Smoke billows out of the four stacks on the deck and the guns on deck are being fired.ART40894
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HMAS 'MELBOURNE II'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The aircraft carrier HMAS 'Melbourne II' at sea, with a variety of aircraft flying overhead.ART40895
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HMAS Perth
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Features the heavy cruiser HMAS "Perth" during the Second World War. A series of modified Leander class cruisers HMAS Perth, HMAS Hobart and HMAS Sydney were all built in Britain and then later commis...ART26927
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HMAS Perth in the Battle of Sunda Strait
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
After service in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and in the Mediterranean, the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth transferred to the Pacific to reinforce the Allied naval forces opposing Japan. With B...ART27557
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HMAS Shropshire drops anchor in Tokyo Bay
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
ship; British Pacific Fleet; heavy cruiser; Mount FujiART25696
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HMAS "SWAN"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
H.M.A.S "Swan" could put up a pretty effective anti-aircraft fire and did so during the first and heavy raid on Darwin. She was damaged during that raid by a near miss which burst alongside, to starbo...ART22240
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Hollandia
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Allied personnel at Japanese positions in Hollandia, Irian Jaya. Hollandia was renamed 'Jayapura' by the Indonesians c 1947. After the Americans captured Hollandia, General Macarthur made it into a la...ART22971
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Hospital Ship at Hollandia
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a Hospital Ship" Wanganella" at Hollandia, New Guinea.ART22972
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In for Repairs
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Flying Fortress and Liberator being overhauled and repaired. The equipment and facilities of this important depot have played a vital part in the Bismark Sea Battle and in fact the whole air offensi...ART22239
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Instructor
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Royal Australian Air Force; pilot (unidentified) at controls of B-25 Mitchell bomber (No 111 Operations Training Unit?)ART22968
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In the Armoury
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Armourers at work. Man in foreground is using a bench vice; man in background man is using a file.ART22966
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In the galley, HMAS Shropshire
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Originally of the Royal Navy, the 'Shropshire' was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy after the loss of the heavy cruiser HMAS 'Canberra' on 9 August 1942 in the Battle of Savo Island. Shropshir...ART25502
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Kegon Waterfall
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
In the foreground, two military personnel walk along a grassy hill next to a river. In the background is Kegon waterfall at Lake Chuzenji-ko, Nikko from the Honshu region of Japan. The main Kegon wate...ART26555
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Kittyhawk amongst the sand dunes: a Warhawk of 3 Squadron RAAF
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Merlin-engined Kittyhawk (or Warhawk) of 3 Squadron in a dispersal bay, Vasto, Italy, March 1944. This aircraft still retained the buff and brown camouflage of the western desert.ART22244
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Leading Aircraftman Arthur Adams
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Leading Aircraftman Arthur Hope Adams, Q127611, RAAF in Britain.ART22359
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Liberty Ship
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts the war torn Liberty ship docked in Finschhafen, New Guinea in 1945.ART22973
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Load, 4" gun, HMAS Wagga
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The 4 inch gun crew on HMAS Wagga (unidentified). The shells are being brought to the gun first from the ready-use lockers on deck and when these are exhausted are lifted from the ammunition hoist whi...ART24425
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maquette for Survivors
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
This is a maquette study for the large scale memorial to the Merchant Navy, 'Survivors', by Dennis Adams. It was created at a scale of approximately four and half to the envisaged final memorial. A...ART90970
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Marauders - American Aircraft
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Two of the formidable type of American medium bomber undergoing overhauls in one of the big "igloo" type hangars of 4 U.S Depot, Townsville. These aircraft were units of a group which did magnificent ...ART22238