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• Street-fighting in Capua : On the River Volturno, Italy, October 1943

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1945

  image: a street scene in which the houses are all severely war-damaged or simply piles of rubble. Two British soldiers can be seen rushing forwards holding their rifles, towards a barricade of barbed wire. In the clouds of smoke at the end of the street...

• The Smoke Screen: Hunt class destroyers laying a smoke screen round a convoy bound for Italy

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1944

  image: an aerial view of a convoy at sea off a coastline, which is visible in the background. There are three large plumes of smoke, the largest of which is in the immediate foreground, where destroyers are laying a smokescreen. One of the destroyers is...

• Cassino, Italy, 1944

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1944-07-20

  image: view along a road into the ruined town of Cassino. There are notices in English displayed by the roadside, one on the right and two to the left. The ruined buildings of the town can be seen further down the road and up the face of the hill in the...

• An Air Escort for one of the First Convoys to take part in the Invasion of Sicily

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1943-07-07

  image: a view looking back at a manned turret on the fuselage of a bomber in flight above water. Several ships are sailing below and there are mountains in the distance. The artist's reflection can be seen in the lower foreground.

• Grottaglie, near Taranto, Italy : All that was left of the offices of the enemy Airport Commander after the Allied bombing

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1944-02-10

  image: a severely damaged two storey building in the foreground with a large portion of the wall blown away in the centre, revealing a void where a staircase had been. The house is surrounded by a pile of rubble and some charred trees. The partially-clad...

• Grottaglie : The Deep Rooter, a machine used by the combined British and American aerodrome construction companies working in Italy

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1944-01-26

  image: The Deep Rooter is in the foreground on a site being cleared at the edge of an aerodrome, visible in the distance.

• Building the New Runway at Taranto Aerodrome

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1944-01-21

  War Artists Advisory Committee purchase

• Aircraft of the 15th Air Force returning from the Last Raid on Ploesti Oilfield passing over Grottaglie Aerodrome

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1945

  image: A gun position set on a mound by the side of a road. A track leads up from the road to huts near the gun post. The roofs of buildings are visible in the bottom left corner of the composition; a man walks towards them carrying buckets in either...