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Welding by Sybil Andrews, oil on canvas
Fine Art, In Storage, FA00997
This is one of seven paintings Andrews made about boat building, which she developed after the war from wartime sketches taken while working for the British Power Boat Company in Hythe, Southampton, which built high-speed launch craft for RAF air sea rescue missions.
Medal Bar of Wing Officer Jessie Mary Higgins
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, X003-7378
Medal Bar of Wing Officer Jessie Mary Higgins, Princess Mary Royal Air Force Nursing Service.
Medal Bar of Warrant Officer William Nathan Addison
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1992/0045/D
William Addison was initially a Wireless Operator but volunteered for aircraft duties at the start of the Battle of Britain in 1940. He flew as an air gunner in Bristol Blenheims with No. 23 Squadron.
Medal Bar of Group Captain Geoffrey Brunner
Aircraft & Exhibits, In Storage, 1993/0470/D
During the Battle of Britain Geoffrey Brunner served with No. 43 Squadron. On 26 August 1940 in a raid off Portsmouth he was attacked by a Messerschmitt Bf 109. With no radio, engine or hydraulics, covered in petrol and wounded in the ankle, he successfully made a wheels-up landing at RAF Tangmere.
Generators and batteries: General and technical information
Library, In Storage, X008-9241
Air Publication regarding generators and batteries, Air Publication 113A-0311-1 (formerly AP4343A Volume 1), circa 1974.
Rover airborne auxiliary power plant, MK 10301: General and technical information and minor repairs
Library, In Storage, X008-9240
Air Publication for the Airborne Auxiliary Power Unit as fitted to a Hawker-Siddeley Vulcan. Air Publication 102F-0204-16A (formerly AP4617C Vol. 1 & 6), circa 1965.
Augsburg Raid, April 17 1942 by Paul Nash, watercolour and gouache on paper
Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA00985
Famed for his First World War works, in 1940 Nash was invited again to become an Official War Artist for the revived scheme chaired by Sir Kenneth Clark. When Clark’s War Artists’ Advisory Committee assigned him to the Air Ministry Nash made propagandist watercolours of RAF and crashed Luftwaffe aircraft.
Moonlight Voyage: Hampden Flying Above the Clouds by Paul Nash, lithograph
Fine Art, In Storage, FA01315
This lithograph was published by the National Gallery and the Ministry of Information after an original watercolour by Paul Nash from his series ‘Aerial Creatures’, commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC) for the Air Ministry in 1940.
Study for ‘Take Off’: Interior of a Stirling bomber and Crew by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper
Fine Art, In Storage, FA01177
This detailed compositional drawing represents a Bomber Command crew in a Stirling cockpit. It is one of many preparatory works, drawn on large sheets of paper, which Dame Laura Knight made for the painting ‘Take Off’ (1943, Imperial War Museums).
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