Low level bombing training, Harvards No. 6 S.F.T.S. Dunnville

Place North & Central America: Canada, Ontario
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

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

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.