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Airforce
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Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Air Force Unknown
Royal Australian Air Force poster featuring a pilot flying a Canberra Bomber. The poster is a monochrome image in purple, with the pilot's head in the centre of the composition; the pilot is wearing a...ARTV06553
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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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"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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Awaiting the return of a flight from an OP
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Maker: Dargie, William
Scene of members of the 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, standing and looking at they sky. Dargie noted, "Standing on a wrecked German plane, the Intelligence Officer of the Squadron scans t...ART23897
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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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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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Clive Caldwell, Darwin
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Maker: Baird, John
A portrait of Flight Lieutenant Clive Caldwell (402107), RAAF, looking ahead as he stands leaning against a mantle piece. Behind him on the wall is a boar's head mounted on bamboo. Flight Lt Caldwell ...ART27969
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Clive Caldwell's Spitfire cockpit
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Maker: Baird, John
Cockpit study of Wing Commander Clive 'Killer' Caldwell's fighter plane, No. 452 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.ART27959
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Colour tests
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This drawing was made at the Richmond Air Base. The title 'colour tests' indicates that the artist and camofleur, Frank Hinder, was testing colours on aircraft. Three men attend to the aircraft while ...ART29268
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Damaged Kittyhawk on Escarpment Drome
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Maker: Dargie, William
Damaged Kittyhawk on Escarpment Drome. This plane crashed landed upside down. The pilot walked away unhurt, Libya.ART22373
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En route Benalla
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Made from an impression during a flight from Point Cook to Benalla in an Oxford aircraft, Victoria.ART21820
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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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Flight Lieutenant Brian Snowball
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of Flight Lieutenant Brian Snowball, pilot, No 258 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, India 1945.ART25920
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Flight Lieutenant M Baker
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Portrait depicts Flight Lieutenant M Baker, RAAF, wearing flying helmet, goggles and jacket, aircraft in background.ART28348
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Flight Sergeant Vincent Ratcliffe
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
A portrait of Flight Sergeant Vincent Peter Ratcliffe, a pilot with the 456 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Vincent Peter Ratcliffe joined the RAAF in January 1941 and was posted after pilot tra...ART25538
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Flying officer's morning meeting with the commanding officer in the operations room, Diego Garcia
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
Three seated male soldiers meeting in the operations room. Peter Churcher recalled, "This drawing shows the Commanding Officer with two of the pilots in the operations room. The two pilots are revisin...ART91788
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Kwaipomata Point - Tiger Moth, repaired by 15 RSU taking off from the beach
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Maker: Dargie, William
An aircraft is taking off from the beach. Dargie noted, "After the plane had been repaired by 15 Repair and Salvage Unit, Royal Australian Air Force, the pilot got into the plane in a very bad temper,...ART22085
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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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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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On alert: operations room: Flying Commander Acko, Diego Garcia
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Maker: Churcher, Peter
Figure of Flying Commander Acko in the operations room on board HMAS Kanimbla. Peter Churcher recalled, "This drawing depicts "Acko" one of the fighter pilots in the operations room as his shift invol...ART91790
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Oxfords at 3000 feet
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts the Strathbogie Ranges and Goulbourn Valley from an Airspeed Oxford twin engine training aircraft (used for pilot and gunnery training).ART21818
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Pilot in cockpit of Thunderbolt (Warrant Officer Russell Precians)
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Maker: Dargie, William
A413097 Warrant Officer Russell K Precians, pilot, Royal Australian Air Force, serving with No 258 Squadron, Royal Air Force, seen in the cockpit and canopy of Republic P-47D Thunderbolt aircraft at R...ART22390
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Pilot Officer, Leslie Chippindall
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of 404234 Pilot Officer E. Leslie Daniel Howlet Chippindall, originally of a RAAF squadron flying Wildebeests in Malaya, converted to Bristol Beaufort torpedo bombers in Australia, No. 100 Sq...ART23579
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Pilots discussing an operation on their return
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Maker: Dargie, William
Five pilots stand in a group discussing the operation they have just returned from. The artist later wrote about about the work: "An exciting babble of voices exchanging new and views - it usually ta...ART26196
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Port Phillip Bay
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Drawn from an impression during a flight from Point Cook to Benalla. The Duke of Gloucester's plane can be seen between the upper and lower aircraft, Victoria.ART21819
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Practice Drome Strafing
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Maker: Bush, Charles
This was carried out by pilots of the Royal Australian Air Force almost incessantly throughout the day, Townsville, Queensland.ART25781
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RAAF crash boat rescues pilot from the sea
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Maker: Dargie, William
This crash boat was the Air-Sea Rescue craft of Royal Australian Air Force Marine Section, Port Moresby. Over a period of six months the unit had saved many people within a radius of 63 kilometres of ...ART21330
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RAAF Fighter Pilot
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Maker: Mellon, Eleanor
Sculpture of unidentified pilot from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). This bust was brought to Australia by Miss Gretchen Green OBE, an American recreation worker who, during the Second World W...ART28125
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RAAF Pilots Headquarters
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
The Royal Australian Airforce (RAAF) Pilots Headquarters on the beach at Wewak, New Guinea. A parachute has been used to create an awning under which a personnel member stands nude enjoying a drink; t...ART29910
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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 types
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Maker: Baird, John
Three portraits of Royal Australian Air Force types, depicting bomber squadron personnel.ART27968
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Rear Gunner RAAF (Warrant Officer Norman Williams)
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Maker: Tribe, Barbara John Galizia and Sons
Bronze bust of Warrant Officer Norman Francis Williams, RAAF (Service no. 411624). Williams was the most highly decorated NCO of the Second World War and was the only 'non-pilot air ace'. Norman Wil...ART27626
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Squadron Leader Colin Braidwood Walker
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Maker: Tribe, Barbara John Galizia and Sons
Bronze bust of Squadron Leader Colin Braidwood Walker (Service no. 404610). Walker was a pilot and flew Coastal Command. In 1944 he was award a Distinguished Service Order for, as his citation reads...ART40974
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Squall
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Maker: Goodchild, John
An impression during a flight from Point Cook to Benalla in an Oxford aircraft. It is intended to convey the fog-like nature of clouds when flying in it and the possibility of sudden contrasts from br...ART21821
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Warrant Officer Francis Gould
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of Warrant Officer A414671 Francis Harrison Gould, pilot, serving with No. 134 Squadron Royal Air Force in India, 1945ART26135