Place | North & Central America: Canada, Ontario |
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Accession Number | ART21973 |
Collection type | Art |
Measurement | Overall: 31.8 x 43.1 cm |
Object type | Work on paper |
Physical description | watercolour on paper |
Maker |
Warner, R Malcolm |
Place made | Canada: Ontario |
Date made | September 1944 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain |
Low level bombing training, Harvards No. 6 S.F.T.S. Dunnville
Harvard aircraft from No.6 Service Flying Training School, Dunnville at bombing practice on an island target bombing range. Cross bearings taken from two huts at 90 degrees from the target give accurate readings as to the position of the bomb bursts. The training school is operated under the Empire Air Training Scheme and many personnel of the Royal Australian Air Force are among the students having received training here. Ralph Malcolm Warner (1902-1966) was appointed Official War Artist in 1943, covering the activities of the RAAF in Canada, United States and the Bahamas. His first mission was in Papua New Guinea recording Australian operation against the Japanese. In 1945 Warner continued to work as a war artist recording civil and industrial war efforts and food production in areas of New South Wales and Victoria. After the war he returned to commercial art, designing posters, murals and postage stamps and illustrating books.