Shared Experience:A Rescue-ship in the Atlantic: March 1943
Art and War
The view is from a ship’s upper deck as it breaks off from a convoy to attempt a rescue. Plante’s own description of a U-Boat attack on a tanker carrying a cargo of benzene fits this image: “The effect was complete and instantaneous – a great blossoming of flame as torpedo and benzene exploded together.” There were no survivors from the incident and the desperation of the on-duty crew dressed in oilskins is evident.
Paintings
Paul Nash
Battle of Britain
Leslie Cole
Burma - 14th Army: the battle of the Sittang Bend. Men of the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment making an armed patrol
A Rescue-ship in the Atlantic: March 1943
George Plante
HMS Ark Royal in Action
Eric Ravilious
A Parachute Bomb
Matvyn Wright
Before Zero Hour
Alex Colville
Greece
Lyndon Dadswell
H.M.A.S. Perth fights to the last, 28th February, 1942
Murray Griffin
Night Target, Germany
Miller Brittain
Night Air Raid
Charles Comfort
Light Coastal Forces Blow Up An Enemy Merchantman
Richard Eurich
Wreckage On Beach Near Newhaven, England
Michael Forster
A Crater in the Naval Dockyard, Hong Kong
Leonard Rosoman
Submarine Pens At Brest
Michael Forster
Desolate plantations, Balikpapan
Donald Friend
Shattered Landscape, Cleve
Alex Colville
Central Square, Tobruk
Ivor Hele
Wrecked ME 210
Charles Comfort
Home Again
Miller Brittain
Troops in back of truck, Libya
Ivor Hele
Hitler Line
Charles Comfort