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• Coastal Defences

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1940

  image: a view looking down into a wide bay from the cliff tops. The curve of the land stretches along the left side of the composition, and a searchlight beams up into the sky further along the coast. Several small boats are seen motoring out to sea from...

• Anti-aircraft Fire meeting Flying-bombs as they cross the Coast Defences, Dymchurch, July 1944

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: View along the defended beach at Dymchurch with puffs of anti-aircraft fire in the sky and the fleeting shape of a flying-bomb in upper right corner

• A Command Post, H.A.A. : Royal Canadian Artillery

  (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA) 1942

  image: an anti-aircraft battery. On the left is a soldier keeping look out. On the right three other soldiers lean against the brick walls of the battery. Behind them a large piece of equipment stands covered in a green tarpaulin. An anti-aircraft gun...

• In the Deck Cabin of HMS Campeador V : left to right : Commander C H Davey, OBE, RN ; Surgeon Rear-Admiral James R Muir, RN (serving as a lieutenant, RNVR) ; Lieutenant Charles Turner, RNVR

  (art) Made by: Bone, Muirhead

  image: A group portrait of three naval officers in uniform sitting around a table. One is sitting in a chair with his hands clasped. A second is sitting on a window seat on the other side of the table, looking directly at the viewer. A third officer is...

• Protection Pits for Dispersed Aircraft, Lee-on-Solent

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA)

  image: in the foreground a land based Kingfisher stands in a protection pit, with a second Kingfisher beside it in a similar construction. A Swordfish biplane stands on the airfield in the background.

• A New Runway, Lee-on-Solent

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA)

  image: The bottom half of the composition is dominated by the runway, lined by mounds of earth dotted along either side. There are vehicles and figures in the central space who appear to be laying tarmac over the concrete surface of the runway. Above,...

• An Aeroplane, Lee-on-Solent

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA)

  image: three Kingfisher seaplanes stand in an aerodrome consisting of corrugated metal hangars painted with camouflage patterns.

• An AA Battery : River Medway

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1943

  image: a view looking down on several anti-aircraft guns, including two Bofors guns, in gun emplacements with a few soldiers moving around in between the maze of walls in the battery. The battery is positioned on the coast with the sea and a small dock...

• A Swordfish Aircraft Getting Ready to Take Off

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA)

  image: A grey-coloured Swordfish sitting on a runway, facing away from the artist. Several figures stand close to the plane, each wearing a yellow parachute jacket over a flying suit. Light shines in from the right of the composition casting shadows on...

• A Royal Observer Corps Post, Rottingdean

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1944

  image: a view looking down on two observers, one wearing headphones, facing upwards towards the sky with binoculars and a aircraft range finder. They stand in a small brick enclosure on a hillside near the coast.