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• Coastal Defences

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1940

  image: a view looking down into a wide bay from the cliff tops. The curve of the land stretches along the left side of the composition, and a searchlight beams up into the sky further along the coast. Several small boats are seen motoring out to sea from...

• 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

• A Command Post, H.A.A. : Royal Canadian Artillery

  (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA) 1942

  image: an anti-aircraft battery. On the left is a soldier keeping look out. On the right three other soldiers lean against the brick walls of the battery. Behind them a large piece of equipment stands covered in a green tarpaulin. An anti-aircraft gun...

• 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...

• A Royal Observer Corps Post, Rottingdean

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1944

  image: a view looking down on two observers, one wearing headphones, facing upwards towards the sky with binoculars and a aircraft range finder. They stand in a small brick enclosure on a hillside near the coast.

• Coast Defence Battery : September 1940

  (art) Made by: Freedman, Barnett (CBE) 1940-09-01

  image: A coastal heavy artillery emplacement covered by camouflage netting overlooking the sea, which is visible on the left. The large calibre gun, in the centre left, is also camouflaged with paint in shades of green, brown and yellow. The emplacement...

• RAF Marine Craft, Stranraer

  (art) Made by: Cundall, Charles Ernest 1944

  image: a view of several RAF marine craft at sea with the coast in the background.

• Firing a 9.2 Gun

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1941

  image: a gun position set on a hillside. A group of figures stand on the right, behind the camouflaged structure that houses the gun. There are enormous yellow flames billowing into the air from the nose of the gun. Delicate white flowers lie in the...

• Bombing the Channel Ports

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1941

  image: the deserted road along the green-banked coastline. In the top right of the composition there are searchlights beaming up into the sky, and a large circular glow of light to one side.

• Defence of Albion

  (art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1942

  image: A Sunderland flying boat on a stormy sea off the coast of Portland. Part of the U Boat is visible in front of the plane. Large quarried stones are stacked on the shore.