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• Wings Over Scotland

  (art) Made by: Henderson, Keith (OBE) 1940

  image: An aerial view of the Scottish landscape from an aircraft, with one of the plane's wings in the left foreground. Below are a few buildings clustered together, a few fields, a curved and narrow wood and what appears to be a river.

• Living Quarters on a Dispersed 'Z' (Rocket AA) Battery Site

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1943

  image: a hutted camp with Nissen huts set amongst trees, with RAF airmen walking and cycling along the road in the foreground, seemingly on their way back to the camp. On the corner of the side road that leads to the camp is a sign marked 'Z Site',...

• A Hutted Encampment

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1943

  image: a detailed view from above of an RAF camp set amongst trees. The camp is full of Nissen huts with troops walking and cycling along the connecting roads, the main one of which runs from the bottom right corner in the foreground to the top left in...

• Stalking the Night Raider

  (art) Made by: Nockolds, Roy Anthony 1941

  image: a Defiant aircraft flying at night above a moonlit coastline. The beams of two searchlights cross just beneath the plane.

• An Interception CHL (Chain Home Low) Radar Station

  (art) Made by: Rawlinson, William Thomas 1946

  image: a radar station with a metal framed radar mast reaching up into the sky surrounded by several trucks. To the right another mast, a large radar dish and two men in blue overalls are visible.

• Spitfires at Sawbridgeworth, Herts

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1942

  image: A view of five Spitfires on an airfield. The two Spitfires in the foreground stand side by side, with a brick wall between them.

• An Air View of Montrose, Angus

  (art) Made by: Henderson, Keith (OBE) 1940

  image: an aerial view of Montrose, showing a viaduct crossing the South Esk Estuary with the wing of an RAF plane entering the image, upper right.

• Hangars Under Construction, RAF Camp, Henlow

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

  image: a view across a airfield where there are four curved, three semi-circular hangars in a row and a fourth under construction in the distance. There is a Hurricane fighter in the hangar nearest the artist.

• Fortresses taking off from Massicault, North Africa

  (art) Made by: Lee, L S 1943-09-01

  image: A runway in the desert surrounded by barbed wire. Two Flying Fortresses are preparing to take off. In the distance others can be seen already in the sky.

• The Battle of Egypt, 1942: Desert Scene

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

  image: A desolate, desert scene with a scattering of tents, military vehicles and a solitary Hurricane aircraft.