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A "Black cat" returning from night raid over New Guinea, dips low over hides' roof
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Hide's hotel, well known to northern tourists before the war, was the first living quarters in Cairns for pilots and officers of the Royal Australian Air Force Catalina Squadron operating from Trinity...ART25626
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A corner of the main assembly floor,
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A corner of the main assembly floor showing Australian built Gannets and Wirraways, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Factory, Melbourne.ART23077
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Advance in New Guinea to 31 Dec 1943
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Maker: Lilley LHQ Cartographic Coy, Australian Survey Corps
Second World War propaganda poster issued by L H Q Cartographic Company, Australian Survey Corps featuring a topographical colour map of New Guinea and nearby islands. It shows the allied advances up ...ARTV10223
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Aeroplane graveyard, Nadzab
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
The Nadzab area - scene of great air activity during the Ramu and Finisterres campaign, now presents a desolate sight. A large aeroplane dump stands as mute testimony to the wastage of war, while odd ...ART23725
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[Aeroplane maintenance]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts several men around an aeroplane in Drarwin, during the Second World War. A sketch of ambulance trucks and cloud studies appears on the verso of this sketch. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), ...ART96451
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[Aeroplane]; [Supermarine Spitfire and Mitsubishi A6M2 Zeroes flying over coastline]
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Maker: Ogi, Tomu
Recto: right hand side of a drawing of an aeroplane. Verso: Supermarine Spitfire and Mitsubishi A6M2 Zeroes flying over coastlineART91042.011
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[A Hudson aeroplane]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a study of an aeroplane, a Hudson bomber. The Lockheed Hudson was an American-built light bomber and coastal reconnaissance aircraft built initially for the Royal Air Force shortly before the ...ART96513
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[Aircraft bombardment]
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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 carrier]; [Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero with Aichi D3A Bombers on Aircraft carrier]
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Maker: Ogi, Tomu
Recto: Right hand side of watercolour depicting a Japanese aircraft carrier. Verso: Left hand side of watercolour featuring a Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero with Aichi D3A 'Val' Bombers on aircraft carrier, wai...ART91042.002
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[Aircraft carriers with Nakajima B5N Torpedo Bomber]
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Maker: Ogi, Tomu
Recto: Blank page; Verso: left hand side of the watercolour of Aircraft carriers with Nakajima B5N Torpedo Bombers ( 'Kate' Carrier attack bomber) taking off the aircraft carrier.ART91042.013
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[Aircraft carriers with Nakajima B5N Torpedo Bomber]; [Nakakima B5N Torpedo Bomber attacking the USS Virginia]
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Maker: Ogi, Tomu
Recto: left hand side of the watercolour featuring Aircraft carriers with Nakajima B5N Torpedo Bombers; Verso: left hand side of watercolour featuring Nakakima B5N Torpedo Bomber ('Kate' carrier attac...ART91042.014
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. : Some famous types.
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Maker: Royal Australian Air Force [S.L : S.N., N.D.]
British Second World War recruitment poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features ima...ARTV01588
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. - Some famous types
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Maker: Royal Australian Air Force
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV05208
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. - Some famous types - I
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV01571
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. - Some Famous Types - I
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV03470
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. : Some famous types - II
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV01572
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. - Some Famous Types - II
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Maker: Unknown LONDON : H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE, [N.D.] (S.L. : FOSH & CROSS) Fosh & Cross Ltd. H.M. Stationery Office
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV03471
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Aircraft spotter
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts an Australian aircraft spotter holding a pair of binoculars in his right hand, clad in shorts, boots and a hard hat looking skywards. The spotter was crucial in alerting the troops to the immi...ART21903
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Aircraft tank shop
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Maker: Ragless, Max
Aircraft petrol tanks being made by General Motors Holden at Woodville, South Australia. Here tanks are being washed in a hot bath. The men are at work in a high roofed workshop filled with various ...ART22649
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Airman in nose turret of Liberator
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Maker: Dargie, William
This is the Emerson electrically operated power turret, fitted with two 0.5 inch Browning machine gun. In the sketch the airman can be seen through the sections of bullet resistant glass, which, toget...ART21048
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[Airmen's non-stop ball]
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Maker: James, William
A female angel wearing a purple dress kisses the cheek of a smiling airman. A green plane flies off to the left of the composition and the text advertises a ball for airmen at the Civic Hall Casino on...ART93976
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[Airmen wearing headphones and study of headphones]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts studies of airmen wearing headphones, observed from the side and rear and studies of pairs of headphones. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, ca...ART96516
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Air sea rescue is not confined to open water
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This painting depicts a "spotter" plane dropping a message to a RAAF Air Sea Rescue Launch carrying out a rescue in an inland Papuan river. A plant with colourful red flowers appears down the right ed...ART22413
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Airstrip at Maleme
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Maker: Dargie, William
From the hill to the south of the 'drome'. It was here that many German troops transports were landed during the attack on Crete. Troops of the 5th New Zealand Brigade strongly defended the area and i...ART23867
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Air Support: Qantas Empire Airways
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Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy Qantas W.M Brooks & Co. Ltd
Second World War propaganda poster designed for QANTAS by leading Australian commercial artist Walter Jardine. The image is a depiction of Australian soldiers and a Papua New Guinean in the valley of ...ARTV05158
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Air travel - Lieutenant Ray Ewers
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts a drawing of Lieutenant Ray B Ewers, Official War Artist, his sleeves rolled down and groundsheet over his shoulders, against the cold. He passes the time by reading on board the Labuan - Moro...ART25869
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Allied troops on beach at Otomata Point
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Maker: Dargie, William
Watercolour sketch of Papuans launching small vessels off the beach, while soldiers sit, or stand on the beach looking on. As Dargie noted, "There was an American listening post here [Otomata Point] ...ART25021
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All the fine young men: If it had not been for the Second World War...
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Maker: Evans, Roslyn
Depicts a collage like image of two baby photographs and a photograph of two young men overlayed with sections of text, deal with politics and war, derived from newspapers. The border of the image con...ART29767.001
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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 Mariner of the air-sea rescue flight at anchor, Trinity Inlet, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A Martin Mariner patrol-bomber flying boat of the Royal Australian Air Force riding at anchor at the flying boat base, Cairns.ART25632
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American pilot
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Maker: Baird, John
A portrait of an American Pilot on board a Douglas Dakota DC3 aircraft, with the interior of the cabin shown in some detail behind him.ART27901
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Ammunition hut
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Maker: Dargie, William
This piece of hardboard contains two watercolour drawings of Ratnap airstrip in India, showing the surrounding landscape, while in the foreground are trees, an aircraft and an ammunition hut. It seem...ART23558
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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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[An aircraft on the runway]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
An aircraft on the runway, with air traffic controllers in the foreground, (image inverted).ART29199.014
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and They Flew from the Airfield at Ngurupai
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Maker: Robinson, Brian Djumbunji Press KickArts Fine Art Printmaking Tremblay, Theodore
Linocut of a ceremonial headdress featuring a fighter plane replica surrounded by minaral. Minaral is a word in the traditional Western Island language of Kala Lagaw Ya referring to design, pattern, ...ART94611
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Anson doing a "240 hourly"
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Maker: Norton, Frank
On the completion of 240 hours flying aircraft are completely overhauled - generally inspected and engines changed, Nowra, New South Wales.ART21160
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Ansons on the Tarmac
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Avro Anson training planes at No.10 Air Observers School, a unit of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), through which many trainees of the Royal Australian Air Force passed, on the tarmac ready to ...ART21983
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Anti aircraft all the way
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Maker: Gilman, Don Office of AC of S, G-2, 14th Antiaircraft Command 650th Engineering Battalion
A poster issued by the Assistant Chief of Staff of the 14th Anti aircraft Command. The poster depicts a broad arrow heading towards a Japanese flag, on the flag is a listing of a number of battles, ...ARTV00538
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Anti-aircraft gun and enemy bombers
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
An incident on the Beirut - Damour Road. Anti-aircraft gun in action against enemy planes. Allied naval vessels are in the distance. Banana, prickly pear and olive trees were the chief form of vegetat...ART30055
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Appearance of a long-nosed Blenheim
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Maker: Nash, Paul
Depicts a Second World War Blenhein airplane emerging from a cloud filled sky. Nash was appointed as a British official war artist in March 1940 by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, working for the...ART26679
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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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Arrival of Gloucesters in Royal Aircraft, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester, when Governor-General of Australia made constant flights from State to State during the war period, invariably accompanied by H.R.H the Duchess of Gloucester. Their retu...ART25591
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Artist's sketchbook No. 4
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Artist's sketchbook of ships in port in Fremantle. Norton made these sketches while stationed at Naval Staff Office, HMAS Leeuwin, Fremantle, July-Nov, 1943. Born in New Zealand in 1916, Frank Norton ...ART28830
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Attack! Attack! Attack!
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Maker: Northfield, James Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
A poster produced for the Beaufort Division of the Department of Aircraft production during the Second World War. The poster depicts Beaufighters attacking Japanese naval vessels. The text below the ...ARTV09059
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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 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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Australian cruiser at Milne Bay
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Painted from a small watercolour sketch and notes made at Milne Bay, from on board HMT "Taroona". Includes two Australian cruisers in the harbour and two aircraft flying overhead.ART23521
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Australian Lancasters loading ex-POWs for England
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Maker: Moore, Alan
A group of ex-POWs boarding a converted Avro Lancaster bomber used to return POWs to England; the group includes Australians and Indians.ART24325
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Avro Anson trainers near Rockies
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Avro Anson trainers being flown by RAAF personnel near the Canadian Rockies, a short distance from Calgary. Ralph Malcolm Warner was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of t...ART21280