Accession Number | AWM2020.22.242 |
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Collection number | PR83/078 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | Folder |
Item count | 1 |
Object type | Postcard, Artwork |
Physical description | 64 Image/s captured |
Maker |
Brownlee Studios Ltd J Salmon Ltd |
Date made | c. 1939 - 1945 |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
Source credit to | This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government. |
Folder 3 of 4 - Aeroplane prints and postcards relating to the Second World War service of Wilmot Hudson Fysh, c. 1939 - 1945
Collection relating to the First World War service, interwar career with Qantas and Second World War service of 415 Lieutenant Wilmot Hudson Fysh, No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (later Squadron Leader, Royal Australian Air Force), At sea, Egypt, Turkey, England and Australia, 20 October 1914 - c. 1945.
Folder 3 of 4 - Contains illustrated prints and postcards depicting Second World War aeroplanes in scenes such as air battles, bombing raids and regular flight operations. Five illustrated prints from the "Aeroplane Series" published by Brownlee Studios Ltd, feature British official war artists Charles Ernest Cundall, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson and Norman Wilkinson as well as Geoffrey Herbert Pooley. The original titles of some or all of these artworks differ to the titles that appear on the prints published by Brownlee Studios Ltd. This folder also includes four sets of postcards (24 in total and blank on the versos) from the "Britain's Air Power" series published by J. Salmon Ltd, and illustrated by artists Albert Francis Derek Bannister and Roland Davies.
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Units
Subjects
- Avro Lancaster
- Boeing B17 Flying Fortress
- Boulton Paul Defiant
- Bristol Beaufighter
- Bristol Beaufort
- Bristol Blenheim
- Consolidated B24 Liberator
- Consolidated Catalina
- Curtiss P40 Tomahawk
- Douglas A-20 Havoc
- Fairey Fulmar
- Handley Page Halifax
- Hawker Hurricane
- Lockheed Lightning
- Lockheed Ventura
- North American P51 Mustang
- Short Stirling
- Short Sunderland
- Supermarine Spitfire
- Vickers Wellington
- War Artist
- Westland Whirlwind (fighter)
- de Havilland DH98 Mosquito