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Exhibition Theme - Battle

"All this was frightful, a real nightmare . beyond anything I could have conceived."
- T.R. MacDonald, Canadian Army

Battle of Britain, Paul Nash, IWM ART LD 1550 Burma - 14th Army: the battle of the Sittang Bend, Leslie Cole, IWM ART LD 5617 A Rescue-ship in the Atlantic: March 1943, George Plante, IWM ART LD 3055 HMS Ark Royal in Action, Eric Ravilious, IWM ART LD 284 A Parachute Bomb, Matvyn W Wright, IWM ART LD 1355 Before Zero Hour, Captain David (Alex) Alexander Colville, 19710261-2031 Greece, Lyndon Dadswell, ART40925 H.M.A.S. Perth fights to the last, 28th February, 1942, Murray Griffin, ART24483 Night Target, Germany, Brittain, Flight Lieutenant Miller Gore, 19710261-1436 Night Air Raid, Mr. Charles Fraser Comfort, 19710261-2238 Light Coastal Forces Blow Up An Enemy Merchantman, Richard Ernst Eurich, 19710261-6082 Wreckage On Beach Near Newhaven, England, Lieutenant Michael Francis Edward Forster, 19710261-6171 A Crater in the Naval Dockyard, Hong Kong, Lenard Henry Rosoman (RA), IWM ART LD 5650 Submarine Pens At Brest, Lieutenant Michael Francis Edward Forster, 19710261-6169 Desolate plantations, Balikpapan, Donald Friend, ART22894 Shattered Landscape, Cleve, Captain David (Alex) Alexander Colville, 19710261-2116 Central Square, Tobruk, Ivor Hele, ART22865 Wrecked ME 210, Mr. Charles Fraser Comfort, 19710261-2314 Home Again, Flight Lieutenant Miller Gore Brittain, 19710261-1434 Troops in back of truck, Libya, Ivor Hele, ART28479 Hitler Line, Mr. Charles Fraser Comfort, 19710261-2203
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    Date created: May 3, 2005 | Last updated: October 22, 2009