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Photo Recce pilot (Squadron Leader Harry Smith)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of photo-reconnaissance pilot Squadron Leader Harry Smith, RAF, of No 683 Squadron in San Severo, Italy.ART23484
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Pilot and observer, Mosquito (Flying Officer Gordon Nunn DFC and Flying Officer Hugh Mitchell DFC)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flying Officer Gordon Nunn DFC, pilot, and Flying Officer Hugh Mitchell DFC, observer, both 464 Squadron RAAF, in the cockpit of a de Havilland Mosquito aircraft.ART22964
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Pilot of a Mosquito
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A close up and cropped image showing a pilot in the cockpit of a Mosquito aircraft, he is wearing a yellow safety vest and he is wearing ear phone radio control.ART25670
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Private Leslie Stokie
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Private Leslie Stokie, New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, drawn a few days after his rescue by Catalina Flying Boats from New Britain where he had an amazing adventure during his sojourn on the Island under...ART21492
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Private Leslie Stokie, New Guinea Volunteer Rifles
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Private Leslie Stokie, New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, drawn a few days after his rescue by Catalina Flying Boats from New Britain where he had had amazing adventures during his sojourn on the Island und...ART21502
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RAAF seaplanes at dispersal points, Rathmines
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Vought Sikorsky Kingfisher float planes of RAAF at Rathmines, hauled out of the water and dispensed agmonst the giant Ti-Trees and gums of the lake-side. These aircraft were designed principally for n...ART23439
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RAAF Sunderland Flying Boat attacking U-boat
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Many Australian squadrons served in the RAAF Coastal Command, originally formed to counter enemy naval activity. Coastal Command became specialists in long-endurance ocean patrols, mine-laying, torped...ART27572
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Ready for take off (Flying Officer Walter Hogg)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The subject of this painting, Flying Officer Walter Hogg, No 3 Squadron RAAF, went missing over Italy, and was a POW during the war. Here he is depicted adjusting his helmet while sitting in a Curtiss...ART23462
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Rear Gunner, Halifax bomber
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
External view of a gunner in the rear turret of a Halifax bomber. This is a Boulton Paul Type E turret with four 0.303 inch machine guns. Dennis Adams portrayed Royal Australian and United States nav...ART22962
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Seaplane, Sikorsky Kingfisher, and RAN cruisers
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts Sikorsky-Kingfisher float-plane flying over HMAS 'Australia'. This work was started during the two weeks that Adams was in Richmond and Rathmines and was later finished in Sydney.ART26928
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Seaward patrol, Catalina flying boat
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The pilot and co-pilot are at the controls in the big cabin of a Catalina flying boat. Overhead one of the 1,200 horse power motors is turning the airscrew into a flicking disc.ART22336
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Sergeant Armourer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Sergeant Armourer from 3 Squadron RAAF, smoking a cigarette in Vasto, Italy.ART23480
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Ship bearing red ten
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Wooden sculpture of a seaman at the helm. Ship bearing red ten was commissioned in 1967, at the suggestion of the sculptor, for the new extensions to the main building at the Australian War Memorial....ART27624
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Ship's Prow
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A sketch from above the ships bow, the USS "Chester" a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1930 and used throughout the Second World War and then de-commissioned from service in 1946.ART23587
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Shipwright, HMAS Hobart
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Royal Australian Navy, HMAS; unidentified naval officer at shipwright's benchART25681
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Sinking of the 'Tirpitz'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
From her completion in 1941, the 40,600-tonne German battleship 'Tirpitz' became a threat to the safety of British and Allied convoys and naval ships alike. Not only was her warlike potential much to ...ART25686
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Spitfire on Photo-Reconnaissance over Brindisi, Italy
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
During the course of the Allied campaign in Italy in 1943-45 No. 683 Squadron, RAF, formed part of a combined British-American photographic reconnaissance wing base at San Severo, north of Foggia. For...ART22191
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Springtime in Southern Italy
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A wrecked Junkers Ju 88 aeroplane at Tortorella Strip near Foggia, Italy. A Wellington can be seen in the background and also a white cloud of dust from the chalk covered taxiways. The wrecks about th...ART23464
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Squadron Leader Charles C Learmonth
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A sketch made in the Intelligence Room at Ward's Strip, Port Moresby. Squadron Leader Charles C Learmonth and some of his squadron have just returned from a strike over Salamaua and are being de-brie...ART21487
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Squadron Leader Frederick Burton at the controls of an Anson
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Squadron Leader Frederick Elgar Burton DFC, was an RAAF pilot who come to Australia on special duties. He won the DFC for being the first man to shoot down a German aircraft. The drawing shows Burton ...ART21528