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• Bechuanaland Boys cleaning AA Guns in the Twilight after Action, Syracuse, Sicily

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: soldiers from Bechuanaland stand on the edge of a gun emplacement, cleaning the barrel of a gun. Behind them are several anti-aircraft guns with rows of tents nearby and mountains in the distance.

• Admiral C H J Harcourt's Flagship HMS Newfoundland in the Attack on Pantellaria

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: View from a ship firing its guns onshore with crew (dressed in anti-flash gear) watching the action lower left. Smoke rises from target on land.

• HMS Penelope laying a Smoke Screen during the Attack on Lampedusa

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: A view of the side of the ship with three sailors visible at the bottom of the image. The sea, to the side of the ship is partially obscured by a cloud of smoke coming from the ship itself.

• Air Defence Position Men at their Posts during the Attack on Lampedusa

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie

  image: three ADP men sitting in the bridge of a ship, keeping watch through mounted binoculars.

• Star Shells over Lampedusa during a Night Bombardment

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: In the foreground, seven Royal Navy seamen look out to sea from the bridge of a ship. In the distance another Royal Navy vessel sails from left to right and star shells illuminate an island on the horizon, which is under bombardment.

• Craters and Dust : A detour round a blockhouse, Sicily

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: British soldiers march past a shell crater in the side of a road outside a block house. Clouds of dust are blowing across the dry landscape obscuring the background, towards the river on the right.

• Third Degree Readiness after the Taking of Pantelleria and Lampedusa

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie

  image: Four British gunners asleep on the floor in a row, wrapped in overcoats. A fifth man lies across the foreground of the image, at their feet, also asleep under an overcoat.