Gunnery flight Winter No. 3 B & 6 Manitoba

A Bolingbroke aircraft taking off for gunnery practice at No.3 Bombing and Gunnery School where Australian trainees are in training under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). The plane towing the drogue (target) can be seen already on the circuit, at top of picture, MacDonald, Manitoba, Canada. 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 operations 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.