Target sighted - Boston pilot (Flight Lieutenant C Sladen

ART21712

Collection ID	ART21712
Collection type	Art
Title	Target sighted - Boston pilot (Flight Lieutenant C Sladen
Measurement	overall: 43 x 45.4 cm
Object type	Drawing
Maker	Hodgkinson, Roy
Place made	New Guinea
Date made	21 June 2017
Copyright	AWM copyright

Portrait depicting Flight Lieutenant Claude Robert Sladen 1765 (later Squadron Leader, DFC), 22 Squadron RAAF, at the controls of a Boston aircraft, with bomb release and gun firing switch depicted. He wears headphones for communicating with two wireless air gunners in the rear of the aircraft.

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