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• A Blockhouse Somewhere in England

  (art) Made by: Duffy, Louis 1943

  image: a blockhouse in a rural location. In the foreground there are six girders sunk into the ground, surrounded by rocks and cast concrete forms. In the background there is a row of similar concrete blocks running along the edge of a plowed field on a...

• 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

• 'Z' Rocket AA Battery in Action, 1941

  (art) Made by: Macleod, William Douglas

  image: numerous manned Z-rocket launchers are positioned over a flat landscape, all firing upward. Trails from the projectiles and the beams of the launchers searchlights illuminate the night sky.

• War in the Forest : Newfoundland lumberjacks at work in Scotland

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, David M (MC, RSA) 1940

  image: Lumberjacks at work in a Scottish forest. In the foreground two men are cutting a large tree trunk with a saw and a man tends to a white horse. In the background other men manoeuvre the large trunk of a tree that has just been felled.

• Limestone Quarry Trucks

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1943

  image: crates of quarried stone sitting in wheeled trucks on rails that end at the quarry face. In the background there is a third crate which is empty, and a figure standing nearby.

• Lime Quarry Trucks

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1943

  image: three quarry trucks, the foremost two filled with limestone, on tracks in front of a quarry face to the left.

• Lime Quarry Trucks

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1943

  image: a number of red quarry trucks, the foremost of which is filled with limestone. They run on tracks which run to the quarry face on the left. A worker is visible at the quarry face.

• The Quarry Truck

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1943

  image: a detailed image of a quarry truck on a railway track filled with lumps of stone, with a face of the quarry visible behind. Other filled quarry trucks are also visible further down the track.

• Shelter Experiments, near Woburn, Bedfordshire

  (art) Made by: Piper, John (CH)

  image: a view across a depopulated rural landscape where bomb shelter experiments have been conducted. Two domed igloo- like concrete structures stand in the foreground, one largely intact, the other largely destroyed. Further back is a shattered brick...

• An AA Battery : River Medway

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1943

  image: a view looking down on several anti-aircraft guns, including two Bofors guns, in gun emplacements with a few soldiers moving around in between the maze of walls in the battery. The battery is positioned on the coast with the sea and a small dock...