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Mechanics working on the motors of a Kittyhawk, 450 Squadron RAAF
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flight mechanics and riggers have the cowling off a Kittyhawk and are working on the motor. The pilots often took an interest in their own aircraft and helped the ground staff by cleaning the perspex ...ART23485
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Medium Bomber
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
An American B-26 Marauder shown on the tarmac between B25 Mitchells at Richmond Airbase.ART23447
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Mid Upper Turret
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a crew member in the Mid Upper Turret of a Halifax.ART22963
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Model for '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. This is a model for a much larger composition of beaten and welded copper. In the artist's word...ART27985
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Model for 'Ship bearing red ten'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Sculpture of a seaman at the helm. This was a plaster model for a sculpture of red cedar. Ship bearing red ten was commissioned in 1967, at the suggestion of the sculptor, for the new extensions to th...ART27986
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Model maker, HMAS Hobart
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
ship model; HMAS; naval officer (unidentified) with model warship (cruiser)ART25680
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Mosquito on the tarmac
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Viewed from above, Adams depicts a de Havilland Mosquito aircraft standing on the tarmac, painted in RAF camouflage scheme.ART23474
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Mount Fuji, Japan
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
This image was a familiar sight to troops of the British Commonwealth Occupaton Force in Japan. Fuji, or as it is also known, Fuji San, is a sacred mountain 70 miles from Tokyo, 12,388 feet high, the ...ART25501
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Near miss, HMAS Wagga [Milne Bay]
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A tall column of water is seen on the right caused by the explosion of a bomb from a Japanese dive-bomber that has narrowly missed hitting HMAS Wagga, some of whose crew can be seen firing at the plan...ART22326
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Night operation RAAF Hurricane
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A pilot involved in a night time operation with the RAAF Hurricane.ART92548
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Night Prang
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Three figures run for cover as flames erupt from a crashing aircraft. The artist refers to making this painting in direct response to his experience of being in a plane crash in correspondence to the ...ART26046
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NO. 3 Squadron Campsite
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, and other Kittywhawk Squadrons were camped in a line of sand dunes behind a beach on the Adriatic Coast, south of Vasto, Italy.ART23482
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Nursing Orderly
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Sergeant Reg Gay, Nursing Orderly, No. 1 Australian Air Ambulance, which was based in Bari, Italy till the squadron was disbanded February, 1944.ART24435
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Off duty
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flight Lieutenant Ted Strom, Flight Commander of 450 Sqdn, Royal Australian Air Force, enjoys the early Spring sunshine in a comfortable chair, "liberated" from a bombed building.ART23487
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Off Yokohama, HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Swiftsure
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The Australian cruiser, HMAS Shropshire, in the foreground, and the British cruiser HMS Swiftsure, part of the British Pacific Fleet, standing off Yokohama, Japan, during the occupation of that count...ART25506
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Oil sketch for Spitfire
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
An airborne view of a Spitfires during a 'dog fight'. In the foreground one Spitfire is featured with the pilot visible. Another Spitfire soars downward, its engine trail visible. In the distance a pl...ART27636
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One of our aircraft failed to return
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The figure of an airman dressed in tropical uniform and flying gear is suspended in the air by his parachute in a crucifix pose, caught in a shell ravaged tree. Intended to symbolise the heroism of t...ART40893
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Opening fire, HMAS Warramunga
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of Australia's three Tribal Class destroyers at battle practise and opening fire with her main armament.ART23687
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Overhaul
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts the aeroplane engine maintenance, part of Rolls Royce Merlin engine in a Spitfire aeroplane. They served in every combat area, operating as fighters, fighter-bombers, reconnaissance aircraft a...ART21530
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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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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
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Squadron Leader Gordon Savage
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait depicting Squadron Leader Gordon Savage DFC, of the Royal Australian Air Force, No 31 Squadron.ART22365
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Squadron Leader Ken Sands
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
No 450 Squadron; Squadron Leader Ken Sands, DFC and Bar, 450 Sqdn RAAFART25985
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Squadron Leader Murray Nash
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
1944; Squadron Leader Murray Nash, DFC, No 3 Sqdn RAAFART25984
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Squadron Leader Padre Fred Mckay, 3 Squadron RAAF
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of the chaplain: Squadron Leader Padre Fred McKay, 3 Squadron RAAF.ART23483
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Starboard lookout, HMAS Arunta
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The Tribal class destroyers such as "Arunta" have lookout positions on either side of the bridge. These are combination swivel seats with a bracket to hold the binoculars. Lookouts are relieved at lea...ART21521
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Starting up, 'Boston' attack bomber
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts the engine on a Boston bomber starting up from the 22 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.ART22337
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Stirling
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
View of a British Stirling Bomber. Note the incongruity of the airman's mode of transport.ART23467
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Strike at Sibenik
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Sibenik was one of several ports on the Yugoslav side of the Adriatic Sea. which received attention from the Royal Australian Air Force Kittyhawks of No. 3 and 450 Squadrons in anti-shipping strikes s...ART26538
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Study for 'Australian commandos attacking Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, 1943'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Two operatives from Z Special unit in a canoe in Singapore Harbour. They were able to place delayed action limpet mines on the hulls of Japananese ships. Adams was commissioned to complete a large o...ART28537
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Study for 'Australian commandos attacking Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, September 1943'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Two operatives from Z Special unit in a canoe in Singapore Harbour. They were able to place delayed action limpet mines on the hulls of Japananese ships. Adams was commissioned to complete a large o...ART28538
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Sunderland attacking U-Boat
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
This painting from the air shows a Sunderland flying boat up close, attacking a distant U-boat below on the sea.ART27640
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Superstructure, HMAS 'Shropshire'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The cruiser's guns and mast are represented in a cubist manner which conveys energy and strength. Numerous sailors working onboard the ship are painted in a similar angular style. The painting communi...ART25672
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Survivors
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Maker: Adams, Dennis Turville Foundry
This memorial commemorates the service and sacrifice of Australian merchant seamen who manned ships in all ports of the world during the First and Second World Wars. The support these men provided wa...ART27987
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Taking off - Boston Bomber
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Boston bomber of 22nd Squadron at Richmond RAAF Station. The aircraft of the squadron made various training flights and were used to escort convoys off the NSW coast before flying North to operate a...ART26957
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Target in the Ruhr Valley
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Planes flying during a battle in the Ruhr Valley, Germany during the Second World War.ART27634
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The Armourer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts the Armourer cleaning the guns on a portion of Beaufighter aircraft. The fighter entered service in July 1940. It's main role was destined to be as night-fighter, but it was also used as a lon...ART21529
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The Beach Head, Oro Bay
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The principal advance base for the invasion of Lae and Salamaua. The Dutch steamer, "Bantum" is seen, partly submerged, on the left. The Dutch ship "Jansens" is seen at anchor on the right, having jus...ART23446
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The 'Biscuit Bombers' dropping supplies New Guinea
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A sketch of the 'biscuit bombers' dropping supplies in New Guinea. This sketch was a design for a diorama for the galleries of the Memorial.ART92545
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The blue Spitfire
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Spitfire Mark XI of No. 683 Squadron in the blue camouflage of all Photo Reconnaissance aircraft. A photographic reconnaissance wing was based at San Severo north of Foggia. Here, as with the entir...ART22243
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The boat deck, HMAS 'Moresby'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
View of the boat deck on HMAS Moresby. Two figures can be seen on the deck; one climbing a guy rope; the other looking through a telescope.ART23876
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The Bomb Aimer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The bomb aimer is poised, ready to make his target during a nighttime raid. This subject fascinated Adams, his work often features pilots engaged in the act of their service.ART25692
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The Buddha at Kamakura
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The Great Buddha of Kamakura, a bronze statue of the Amida Buddha, located on the grounds of the Kotokuin Temple. With a height of 13.35 metres, it is the second largest Buddha statue in Japan. The st...ART25683
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The End of a Raider
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
This Japanese Mitsubishi 'Betty' bomber, one of nearly a hundred attacking the Milne Bay area, at a height of 25,000', was brought down by Australian Kittyhawks who dived on them from 28,000'.ART23686
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The First Lieutenant, HMAS "Moresby"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
First Lieutenant George A Johns, HMAS Moresby, was "seagoing" or in other words he was a Naval Reserve Officer in the Merchant Service, who at the outbreak of the war had been called up for service wi...ART21483
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The Gunnery Officer, HMAS "Moresby"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
"Guns" on most of the smaller ships of the Navy was generally a Warrant Officer but in this case he was a Sub-Lieutenant - Sub-Lieutenant John C. Wright-Smith, HMAS Moresby. He had some of the lower d...ART21482
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The Master, Captain of Dutch MV Nigerstoom (Captain de Freis)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Captain de Freis, Master of the Dutch merchant vessel MV Nigerstroom. Captain de Freis was born in Friesland, a small province of the Netherlands. He spent much of his life at sea and was...ART23454
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The Quartermaster, HMAS Warrego
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Quartermaster of the "Warrego" at the wheel, while in the chart room behind him, the officer of the watch checks the chart.ART22363
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The Second Day
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Two air crew wearing 'Mae West' life jackets in a two-man inflatable life raft at sea.ART22190
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The Tail Gunner
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
External view of tail gunner in rear turret of Handley Page Halifax bomber. This is a Boulton Paul Type E turret with four 0.303 inch machine guns. This work is part of a series by Adams that explores...ART25694
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To Oro Bay
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
After the fall of Buna, Oro Bay became the principal advanced base for further operations. Many of the merchant ships which made the passage from Milne Bay were Dutch. Single ships were usually escort...ART26359
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Train Busters
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Some of the most important work of the Australian fighter-bomber Mosquito Squadron based in England was train busting. This painting is of a typical operation and shows aircraft attacking trains in a ...ART23412
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US Tug
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The "James Wallace" was a well known tug in Sydney and other Australian ports. She was bought by the US Army and became a member of the "Small Ship Section.ART23448
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"Van Heenskerk"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
S.S Van Heenskerk was hit by a Japanese bomb in Milne Bay, and although not actually beached, she was taken close inshore and both anchors dropped. Despite heroic attempts by the crew and that of HMAS...ART22325
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Waiting for a Call
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flight Sergeant Ronald Albert Steele, pilot No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, relaxes with a book in the Mess. A table just inside was always piled with magazines including well known Austra...ART24447
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War Correspondent
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Melbourne Pratt, War Correspondent Sydney Morning Herald, typing a despatch to his paper one evening at the Public Relations cottage at Port Moresby.ART21503
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Watching a Kittyhawk Take Off
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Kittyhawk taking off down the metal mesh covered runway. The blue line of the Adriatic can be seen in the distance.ART23461
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Watching the Take Off
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Kittyhawk taking off from the metal mesh covered runway. The blue line of the Adriatic Sea can be seen in the background.ART26108
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Wellington Pilot [Flight Sergeant Jack Chisholm McCallum]
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of 420580 Flight Sergeant Jack Chisholm McCallum, 37 Squadron, RAF, seated in the cockpit of an aircraft. Many Australians served in the squadrons of the group on the aerodrome near Foggia, I...ART22978
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Wellington wireless operator
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Interior of a Wellington bomber, depicting Warrant Officer Norman Perry Marshall, RAAF, as a Flight Sergeant wireless operator with equipment which consists of T1154 transmitter and R1155 receiver, 37...ART22979
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Wing Commander Brian Eaton
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Wing Commander Brian Eaton, DFC, DSO, was at one time the Commanding Officer No. 3 Squadron, RAAF. He later went to Mobile Operations Room.ART23460
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Wing Commander Jack Davenport
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A portrait of Wing Commander Jack Napier Davenport, DSO, DFC and Bar, GM, No 455 Squadron, Coastal Command.ART23475
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Wing Commander John Lerew
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Wing Commander John Margrave Lerew, DFC, RAAF, was well known as the Commanding Officer at Rabaul at the time of the Japanese advance and invasion of that base. This sketch was made in December 1943 w...ART21536
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Winter's Day
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The airfield at Vasto, on the Adriatic Coast, is seen covered with snow and ice, which often had to be blasted off by the slipstreams of parked aircraft to render it serviceable.ART22977
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Wireless operator in an Avro Anson
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A wireless operator in an Avro Anson at Laverton, Victoria.ART21300
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Wirraways in Flight
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Three Australian-built Wirraways in 'Vic' flight formation above the NSW Coast.ART28724
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With the cowlings off
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Fitters, riggers and flight mechanics (all unidentified) of No 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force working on the Rolls Royce Merlin engine of Curtiss P-40F Kittyhawk ('Warhawk') areoplane, under t...ART24446
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X gun, 4" gun on HMAS Swan
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of the three 4-inch guns which form the main armament of this RAN Slooth. The designation "X" is derived from the breach mechanism of the mounting on "X" deck which in British naval ships is a rai...ART22298