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Airman
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
An airman from the Second World War wearing full flying kit, (flying suit and helmet) and carrying his parachute over his shoulder.ART40978
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Airman (pattern)
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Maker: Ewers, Ray
Figure of an airman in uniform, carrying a parachute. This sculpture was created as a souvenir for sale through the Australian War Memorial. There is a large scale version of this sculpture in the N...ART90972
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Airmen and gear (Flying Officer Skinner and Flying Officer Harold Rowell)
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts Flying Officer Skinner and 406958 Flying Officer Harold M Rowell, both of No 22 Squadron RAAF, preparing for air attack, May 1943 at Ward's Drome.ART21709
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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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Attack with me says Potato Pete
Art
Maker: Unknown Ministry of Food Unknown
British Second World War Ministry of Food poster. The poster depicts the cartoon character Potato Pete as a parachutist. Potato Pete was a character created to advertise the use of potatoes in the pla...ARTV07940
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2/1 Australian Infantry Battalion positions
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Maker: Dargie, William
On a spur overlooking the airstrip at Rethymnon (or Retimo) showing the mountains to the south east. Very bitter fighting between an Australian infantry battalion and the German parachutists took plac...ART24056
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2/4 Australian Infantry Battalion positions at near Alikarnassos
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Maker: Dargie, William
The Australian positions were on extreme top right of picture, the meteorological station at hight point at left. In the depression running up the centre of the scene was a cornfield in which the Germ...ART24048
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British positions near the air-strip, Iraklion
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketched at the town of Iraklion, also known as Heraklion. Showing the positions of the 14th (British) Infantry Brigade during the attack on the airfield by German parachutists and glider-borne troops...ART24045
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Captain Henry Nicholls
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Captain Henry William Nicholls MC (NX15737) 'Z' Special Unit (formerly of 1st Australian Parachute Battalion and 2/1st Australian Pioneer Battalion). Served in Benghazi and Tobruk, ...ART24249
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[Details of a parachute pack]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts the details of the padding, strapping and bag of a parachute pack, used by airmen during the Second World War. On the verso is a study of a parachute clip. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), k...ART96444
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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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Fighter pilot
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Gregory, E J
Figure of an airman wearing shorts and carrying a parachute. This sculpture of a fighter pilot was commissioned in late 1948 and cast in 1952. It is a larger version of a statuette, 'Airman' (ART909...ART40997
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German paratroopers flight to Crete
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Within a plane flying over Crete German paratroopers sit and await their fate, around them swirls a dark spectre of death.ART92804
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Greek Caique in Iraklion harbour
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Maker: Dargie, William
Iraklion is also known as Heraklion in the Official War History, the airfield there was strongly defended by the 14th (British) Infantry Brigade, to which 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion was attac...ART24046
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Gunner (Sergeant Frank Craig) with parachute harness
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of Sergeant Frank Craig from the Royal Australian Air Force, Bombing and Air Gunnery School, wearing a parachute harness. Hele was serving as a private in the AIF, when in January 1941 he was...ART25891
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High or low. You can go places in today's scientific army
Art
Maker: Unknown
This Australian Army recruitment poster relates directly to the re-establishment of the defence forces into the Pentropic Division of organisation. The Pentropic Division was formally announced and i...ARTV10128
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Incident in which Flight Sergeant Rawdon Middleton [VC] lost his life
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Maker: Smith, David T.
This eerie scene depicts the final moments of Middleton's life. Despite the painting being based on a true story, Smith has evoked an unreal modernist seascape. The falling parachutes of the survivin...ART27538
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It's the finish that counts...
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry for Aircraft Production stressing the importance of smooth finishes during aircraft production to ensure aircraft reach their full speed capacity...ARTV01580
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It's the Finish That Counts
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry for Aircraft Production stressing the importance of smooth finishes during aircraft production to ensure aircraft reach their full speed capacity...ARTV03479
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left: Not titled [food queue]; right: Wonder which the P.O.W's want drop't first
Art
Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
left image: Australian prisoners of war stand in a queue waiting to be served food. right image: View of two helicopter pilots sitting in a cockpit with beer and parachutes as cargo. The captions jok...ART90380