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• Catch 22 Bombing the airfield

  (art) Made by: Lee, Dick 1970

  image: Airmen running across an airfield, with planes burning on either side of them. Above them an aircraft is flying low over the airfield, completing a bombing run. Puffs of smoke from gunfire hang in the air.

• With the 8th Army: HQ in a Wine Cellar at Nettuno, 1944

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1944

  image: Offices have been set up in two alcoves in a wine cellar. Soldiers sit around dimly-lit tables on which signaling equipment is set up. One is drinking wine. Outside the alcoves a group of American soldiers stand around talking, leaning against the...

• Cesena : Cooks of a Basuto Pioneer Company preparing the midday dinner on Christmas Day, 1944

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward 1944-12-25

  image: the cooks work around various stoves and fires under a wooden roof. Some are chopping wood with axes while others tend the pans and fires.

• Cesena : the barrack-room of a Basuto Pioneer Company under winter conditions

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward

  image: a view along a narrow barrack room with a curved ceiling and high, patched windows. Groups of soldiers gather around two large stoves. Packs and rifles lie on the floor along the walls of the rooms.

• In a Transit Camp near Taranto: drawings on the wall

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1944-03-01

  image: A bare room with drawings scratched onto the walls. There is one man sitting on a mattress on the floor. Two others stand in the doorway. One is leaning against the frame of the door.

• Aerodrome with Camouflaged Hangars

  (art) Made by: Carline, Sydney W 1918

  image: A view of the aerodrome on the Asagio plateau with the Italian Alps in the distance. A temporary hangar with a camouflaged roof stands in the centre left of the composition. Green fields lie in the foreground and there is a suggestion of buildings...

• Melilli Caves, Sicily: part of the Mine Store

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1943-08-01

  image: a view through the straight-edged outer walls of caves used for storing mines, with some spherical naval mines visible in the dark entrance to a cave on the right. Through the gap between the outer walls can be seen a group of four soldiers and...

• Navy House, Tobruk, 1943 : the former Italian Navy HQ

  (art) Made by: Janes, Norman Thomas 1943

  War Artists Advisory Committee purchase

• Catch 22 The Chaplain is Arrested

  (art) Made by: Lee, Dick 1970

  image: A tented army camp. A soldier is led away to a waiting vehicle by another fierce-looking soldier. In the background a group of soldiers is crowding into a tent.

• First Aid and Hospital Tent for German POW's, 'U' POW Camp, Ancona, Italy 1945

  (art) Made by: Fiene, J 1945

  image: four small illustrations of a hospital tent and the surrounding landscape. In the top left is a view of the outside of the hospital tent and in the top right a view of the surrounding countryside. The two bottom illustrations depict the interior...