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• 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

• Battle of London: Royal Marine AA Gunners bring down a Flying-bomb

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: Four marines take cover in a ditch as a flying-bomb, trailing smoke, plummets to earth

• A French Lugger being Cannon-shelled by German Aircraft near Veulette : 10th June 1940

  (art) Made by: Seddon, Richard Harding 1940-06-10

  image: a lugger in shallow water, surrounded by explosions in the water as it is shelled by two German planes swooping overhead. In the foreground the scene is watched by soldiers lying behind some rocks on the beach.

• HMS Boadicea disabled by German Bombers during the Evacuation : 10th/11th June, 1940

  (art) Made by: Seddon, Richard Harding 1940-06-10

  image: HMS Boadicea shown from the stern, keeling to the left, with a tug on either side. A low land mass can be seen in the background.

• Tempests Attacking Flying-bombs

  (art) Made by: Monnington, Walter Thomas (Sir) (PRA) 1944

  image: two Tempests attack a flying bomb in the sky above a farmhouse with an oast house. Outside the farmhouse there is a white horse in a pen rearing up in fright and two cows in the foreground.

• Air Fight over Portland, 1940

  (art) Made by: Eurich, Richard Ernst (RA) 1940

  image: A view of an air fight over Portland with contrails and aircraft in the sky.

• Southern England, 1944. Spitfires Attacking Flying-Bombs

  (art) Made by: Monnington, Walter Thomas (Sir) (PRA) 1944

  image: A squadron of low-flying Spitfires dive towards an idyllic pastoral scene with cows grazing in a tree-lined field. The plane's action frightens a horse causing it to pull a cart into the river, (a detail which evokes Constable's 'Haywain'). The...

• A Tempest Shooting Down a Flying-Bomb

  (art) Made by: Nockolds, Roy Anthony 1944

  image: a Tempest shooting down a flying bomb above a costal landscape.

• Battle of Britain

  (art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1941

  image: An abstracted aerial view of a wide flat landscape including the mouth of a river. Above the sky is full of contrails, and to the upper right aircraft can be seen flying in formation.

• Graveyard : No 1 Metal and Produce Recovery Depot, Morris Works, Cowley, Oxford

  (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1940

  image: a pile of scrap metal consisting of fragments of various planes in a field, surrounded by a ring of tyre marks. In the background there is a crane and some low buildings.