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• SD 2 'Butterfly Bomb

  (weapons and ammunition) 1943

  The German SD 2 'Butterfly Bomb' was used on a large scale during the Second World War, and was designed as an anti-personnel/fragmentation weapon. They were delivered by air, being dropped in containers that opened at a predetermined height, thus...

• 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

• War Weapons Week, Paisley : December 1940

  (art) Made by: Macpherson, Alexander 1940-12-01

  image: A view looking down on Barshaw Park hung with buntings. Crowds of civilians are gathered to look at a display of artillery, tanks and a captured German Messerschmitt 109 fighter aircraft.

• A Flying-bomb over Tower Bridge

  (art) Made by: Cook, Frederick T W 1944

  image: Tower Bridge standing centre of composition with the red streak of a flying bomb travelling across the sky above it, tracked by searchlights.

• 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

• Battle of Britain : parachutists from an enemy aircraft brought down in an apparent attempt to bomb Buckingham Palace

  (art) Made by: Bayes, Walter 1942

  image: An aerial view of Buckingham Palace and the surrounding grounds, with two German airmen parachuting towards the ground.

• Spot at Sight Chart Number Two - Enemy Uniforms

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the two images occupy the majority. The title is separate and positioned in the upper fifth, in red and in black. The text is separate and placed in the lower fifth, in red held within black insets. All set against a white background and held...

• 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.

• 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...

• Blue Baby, Blitz Over Britain, 1941

  (art) Made by: Burra, Edward 1941

  image: a monstrous blue bird-like figure hovers over a desolate landscape. Clouds of smoke rise from rocky shapes on the ground. A group of figures cower in terror among the ruins of their homes.