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Eric Henri Kennington
In the Flare-Path, 1941


pastel on paper, 533 x 368 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/15170

A member of the RAF ground crew in helmet and coat stands on an airfield lit by flares. There is a plane on the tarmac behind.

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Julian Trevelyan
Premonitions of the Blitz, 1940


Oil on canvas, 38.5 x 51 cm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/premonitions-of-the-blitz-6234

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Mondscheinsonate - Coventry, 14 November 1940


Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp, Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)
AUDIO 1st Adagio sostenutto | 2nd Alegretto | 3rd Presto agitato


The Coventry blitz was a series of bombing raids that took place in the English city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Air Force. The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940. [...]

The raid that began on the evening of 14 November 1940 was the most severe to hit Coventry during the war. It was carried out by 515 German bombers, from Luftflotte 3 and from the pathfinders of Kampfgruppe 100. The attack, code-named Operation Mondscheinsonate (Moonlight Sonata), was intended to destroy Coventry's factories and industrial infrastructure, although it was clear that damage to the rest of the city, including monuments and residential areas, would be considerable. The initial wave of 13 specially modified Heinkel He 111 aircraft of Kampfgruppe 100, were equipped with X-Gerät navigational devices, accurately dropped marker flares at 19:20.[19] The British and the Germans were fighting the Battle of the Beams and on this night the British failed to disrupt the X-Gerät signals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz


Aufklärungsstaffel 3(F)/121
GERMAN AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN OVER GREAT BRITAIN, 1939-1940


http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205018274

Vertical aerial reconnaissance view of the centre of Coventry, Warwickshire, annotated with bombing targets. Photograph taken prior to 'Fall Mondscheinsonate' ("Operation Moonlight Sonata") the heavy Luftwaffe air raid on automotive and aircraft component factories on the night of 14/15 November 1941, which devastated the city centre.


John Piper

The Passage to the Control Room at South-West Regional Headquarters, Bristol, 1940


Oil on panel, 76.2 x 50.8 cm


The Control Room at South-West Regional Headquarters, Bristol, 1940


Oil on panel, 63.5 x 76.2 cm


Interior of Coventry Cathedral, 15 November 1940, 1940


Oil on canvas laid on board, 51 x 61 cm



http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/john-piper-4128


The first wave of follow-up bombers dropped high explosive bombs, knocking out the utilities (the water supply, electricity network and gas mains) and cratering the roads, making it difficult for the fire engines to reach fires started by the follow-up waves of bombers. The follow-up waves dropped a combination of high explosive and incendiary bombs. [...]

At around 20:00, Coventry Cathedral (dedicated to Saint Michael), was set on fire for the first time. The volunteer fire-fighters managed to put out the first fire but other direct hits followed and soon new fires in the cathedral, accelerated by firestorm, were out of control. During the same period, fires were started in nearly every street in the city centre. A direct hit on the fire brigade headquarters disrupted the fire service's command and control, making it difficult to send fire fighters to the most dangerous blazes first. As the Germans had intended, the water mains were damaged by high explosives; there was not enough water available to tackle many of the fires. The raid reached its climax around midnight with the final all clear sounding at 06:15 on the morning of 15 November.


Ernest Townsend

The New Order in Europe, Bombed Coventry, November 1940, 1940


Oil on board, 33 x 37.2 cm



Broadgate, Coventry after a Raid, November 1940, 1940–1944


Oil on board, 24.6 x 34.6 cm



http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/ernest-townsend


Randolph Schwabe
Coventry Cathedral: November 1940


Pencil, conté crayon, wash on paper, 380 x 396 mm http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/23984


Coventry's air defences consisted of twenty four 3.7 inch AA guns and twelve 40mm Bofors. Over 6,700 rounds were fired. However only one German bomber was shot down.

In one night, more than 4,000 homes in Coventry were destroyed and around two-thirds of the city's buildings were damaged. The raid was heavily concentrated on the city centre, most of which was destroyed. [...]
An estimated 568 people were killed in the raid (the exact figure was never precisely confirmed) with another 863 badly injured and 393 sustaining lesser injuries. [...]

The raid reached such a new level of destruction that Joseph Goebbels later used the term coventriert ("coventried") when describing similar levels of destruction of other enemy towns. During the raid, the Germans dropped about 500 tonnes of high explosives, including 50 parachute air-mines, of which 20 were incendiary petroleum mines, and 36,000 incendiary bombs. [...]
The British used the opportunity given them by the attack on Coventry to try a new tactic against Germany, which was carried out on 16 December 1940 as part of Operation Abigail Rachel against Mannheim. [...] This was the start of a British drift away from precision attacks on military targets and towards area bombing attacks on whole cities.


James Kessell
Coventry Cathedral Ruins, 1964


Oil on canvas, 183 x 122 cm http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/coventry-cathedral-ruins-54108


Joyce Mary Barnett
Coventry Council House Clock Tower (SEAS Post No.1, 1940–1945), Top of Priory Street, Coventry, 1960s–1983


Oil on board, 54.5 x 77.2 cm http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/joyce-mary-barnett


Charles Ernest Cundall
The Consecration of the New Coventry Cathedral 1962, 1964


Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 129 cm http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/charles-ernest-cundall


The ruined Coventry Cathedral was left as a ruin, and is today still the principal reminder of the bombing. A new cathedral was constructed alongside the ruin in the 1950s, designed by the architect Basil Spence. Spence (later knighted for this work) insisted that instead of re-building the old cathedral it should be kept in ruins as a garden of remembrance and that the new cathedral should be built alongside, the two buildings together effectively forming one church. The use of Hollington sandstone for the new Coventry Cathedral provides an element of unity between the buildings.


William J. M. Clayton
Coventry Composition, 1967


Oil on canvas, 77.2 x 102.2 cm http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/william-j-m-clayton


Rolf Hellberg
The Martyrs of Coventry, 1964


Oil on panel, 81 x 122 cm http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/rolf-hellberg


Charred Cross (replica) and Altar of Rubble, 1941



The cathedral stonemason, Jock Forbes, saw two wooden beams lying in the shape of a cross and tied them together. A replica of the wooden cross built in 1964 has replaced the original in the ruins of the old cathedral on an altar of rubble. The original is now kept on the stairs linking the Cathedral with St. Michael's Hall below.

Another cross was made of three nails from the roof truss of the old cathedral by Provost Richard Howard of Coventry Cathedral. It was later transferred to the new cathedral, where it sits in the centre of the altar cross. The cross of nails has become a symbol of peace and reconciliation across the world. There are over 160 Cross of Nails Centres all over the world, all of them bearing a cross made of three nails from the ruins, similar to the original one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Cathedral

Cross of Nails (in the centre of the altar cross), 1940



http://mrandrewmartin.blogspot.co.at/2011/03/coventry-cathedral.html

One of the crosses made of nails from the old cathedral was donated to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, which was destroyed by Allied bomb attacks and is also kept as a ruin alongside a newer building.

Cross of Nails donated to the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church), Berlin, 1988

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Vergeltungswaffen: V1 The Buzz Bomb / Doodlebug

The first of the so-called Vergeltungswaffen series designed for terror bombing of London, the V-1 was fired from "ski" launch sites along the French (Pas-de-Calais) and Dutch coasts. The first V-1 was launched at London on 13 June 1944, one week after (and prompted by) the successful Allied landing in Europe. At its peak, more than one hundred V-1s a day were fired at southeast England, 9,521 in total, decreasing in number as sites were overrun until October 1944, when the last V-1 site in range of Britain was overrun by Allied forces. This caused the remaining V-1s to be directed at the port of Antwerp and other targets in Belgium, with 2,448 V-1s being launched. The attacks stopped when the last site was overrun on 29 March 1945. In total, the V-1 attacks caused 22,892 casualties (almost entirely civilians).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb

iwm.org.uk - V-Weapons Offensive

V1 Flying Bomb Cut-away, 1944



A cut-away and annotated drawing of the Fiesler Fi 103 flying bomb, (also known as FZG 76 or V1 weapon).


Hennell, Thomas Barclay
A Small Flying-bomb Site at Château de Montigny, near Rouen


Watercolour, 404 x 477 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/12561

A track running through a wooded area. A second track runs across the foreground of the drawing. Next to this is the entrance and steps down to an underground room in the forest floor. Behind this is a bunker on the left.


A Fiesler Fi 103 flying-bomb (V1) in flight, 1944



A German Fiesler Fi 103 flying-bomb (V1) in flight, as seen by the gun camera of an intercepting RAF fighter aircraft, moments before the fighter destroyed the V1 by cannon fire.


V1 FLYING BOMB, 1944-45



Seen in silhouette, a Supermarine Spitfire manoeuvres alongside a flying bomb in an attempt to deflect it from its target.


Wilfred Stanley Haines
An Observation Post: Flying Bomb Raid, 1944


oil on canvas, 615 x 749 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/11950

Four searchlights meet in the sky above a bridge and a silhouetted city. The sky is filled with smoke and the glow of explosions and flying bombs. Foreground right two figures can be seen manning an observation post.

The 'Short Guide to the Imperial War Museum' c 1948 states: "This artist served with the National Fire service and worked on this picture during off-duty periods at his station. He was killed by a flying-bomb while standing outside his station and the blast form the same bomb caused the tear to be seen on the left of the canvas."


Frederick TW Cook
A Flying-bomb over Tower Bridge, 1944


oil on canvas, 393 x 495 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/5500


Leslie Cole
Battle of London: Royal Marine AA Gunners bring down a Flying-bomb, 1944


oil on canvas, 666 mm x 901 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/5306


Roy Anthony Nockolds
A Tempest Shooting Down a Flying-Bomb, 1944


oil on canvas, 758 x 1009 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/20393


Walter Thomas Monnington

Tempests Attacking Flying-bombs, 1944


oil on canvas, 901 x 1143 mm

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,1944


oilon canvas, 1054 x 1433 mm

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 sky is filled with the contrails of aircraft, and to the left of the composition a figure cowers under a tree.

iwm.org.uk - Walter Thomas Monnington


Alfred Reginald Thomson
A High Explosive Bomb in High Street, Kensington, 18th February 1944


oil on canvas, 508 x 457 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/26218


V1 FLYING BOMB ATTACKS ON LONDON, 1944-45



A view over the rooftops of London captured on cine film as a V1 flying bomb explodes close to Westminster in London. Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament can be seen on the right.


Reginald Mills
A Blazing Gas Main in Old Compton Street, London W1, 1944


oil on canvas, 406 x 317 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/19286

a view along Old Compton Street at night. The scene is illuminated by flames shooting upwards, crossed with jets of water from the fire crew who stand in the strret attempting to extinguish a fire in a nearby building.


Kaff Gerrard

Twisted Metal and Doodlebug, 1944


oil on canvas, 637 x 765 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/10594

In the foreground are two large pieces of twisted metal, caused as a result of a German air raid, with smaller pieces of metal in front of them. A countryside scene is visible in the background with a V-1 bomb falling downwards in the top right. The sky is full of small bursts of smoke as a result of anti-aircraft guns attempting to hit the V-1 bomb.


Swan Song (Flying Bomb), 1944


Oil on canvas, 61 x 86.5 cm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/swan-song-flying-bomb-28249

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Vergeltungswaffen: V2 Aggregat 4 (A4)

The V-2 rocket [..], technical name Aggregat-4 (A4), was a short-range ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known human artifact to enter outer space. It was the progenitor of all modern rockets, including those used by the United States and Soviet Union's space programs. During the aftermath of World War II the American, Soviet and British governments all gained access to the V-2's technical designs and the actual German scientists responsible for creating the rockets, via Operation Paperclip, Operation Osoaviakhim and Operation Backfire respectively.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2


Cutaway drawing of a German V2 rocket


http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205087342


The weapon was presented by Nazi propaganda as a retaliation for the bombers that attacked ever more German cities from 1942 until Germany surrendered.

Beginning in September 1944, over 3,000 V-2s were launched as military rockets by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets during the war, mostly London and later Antwerp. The attacks resulted in the death of an estimated 7,250 military personnel and civilians, while 12,000 forced labourers were killed producing the weapons. [...]
SS General Hans Kammler, who as an engineer had constructed several concentration camps including Auschwitz, had a reputation for brutality and had originated the idea of using concentration camp prisoners as slave laborers in the rocket program. The V-2 is perhaps the only weapon system to have caused more deaths by its production than its deployment. [...]

"… those of us who were seriously engaged in the war were very grateful to Wernher von Braun. We knew that each V-2 cost as much to produce as a high-performance fighter airplane. We knew that German forces on the fighting fronts were in desperate need of airplanes, and that the V-2 rockets were doing us no military damage. From our point of view, the V-2 program was almost as good as if Hitler had adopted a policy of unilateral disarmament." - Freeman Dyson

Nevertheless, it had a considerable psychological effect because, unlike bombing planes or the V-1 Flying Bomb (which made a characteristic buzzing sound), the V-2 travelled faster than the speed of sound, with no warning before impact, no possibility of defence and there was no risk of attacking pilot and crew casualties.


Possible V1 or V2, 1944-45


http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205087579


Possible V1 or V2, 1944-45


http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205087583


Stephen Bone
A V2 Rocket Leaving Walcheren, 1944


chalk, 460 x 331 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/3204

a seascape showing HMS Warspite off a flat coastline with a light house. Smoke is rising from several points up into the dark sky where there is a V2 rocket creating a white smoke trail.


Anthony Gross
Liberation and Battle of France: An Unfinished Launching Platform for the V2 Rocket at Brix, near Cherbourg, 1944



http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/11659

A wrecked launching platform for a V2 rocket

On 6 June 1944, Gross accompanied the Royal Army Service Corps who were crossing the Channel to Normandy for D-Day. Gross landed at Gold Beach near Bayeux with the 50th (Northumbrian) Division. Gold comprised of four beaches, running in a row from Le Hamel to La Riviere: Jig Green, Jig Red, King Green and King Red. While waiting his turn to land, he made pencil sketches of troops disembarking on the beaches. Two hours later, he jumped into the sea with his watercolours and paper held over his head. Gross followed the 50th (Northumbrian) Division to Bayeux, where he drew the liberation of the town. He managed to acquire a revamped German car from his friends in the Royal Army Service Corps, which allowed him to get close to the action, especially on the Normandy coast.


Randolph Schwabe
V2 Damage at the Chelsea Pensioners' Hospital, London, SW3, 1945


Pencil, 423 x 520 mm
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205022153

The Chelsea Pensioners' hospital following a German V2 flying bomb attack. The building on the left remains largely untouched, except for the windows which have all been blown out. Of the building on the right, half remains standing with severe damage to the roof and chimney. The right side is completely demolished, leaving an interior door on the first floor open to the elements. Some firemen and a nurse make their way through the mounds of rubble and debris in the foreground.


DAMAGE CAUSED BY V2 ROCKET ATTACKS IN BRITAIN, 1945


http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205022153

Ruined flats in Limehouse, East London. Hughes Mansions, Vallance Road, following the explosion of the last German V2 rocket to fall on London, 27 March 1945.


Julian Perry, b.1960

V2 Rocket Crater Pond, Summer 2004


Oil on panel, 26 x 46 cm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/v2-rocket-crater-pond-summer-2004-52074


V2 Bomb Crater in Snow II, 2004


Oil on canvas, 123 x 215 cm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/v2-bomb-crater-in-snow-ii-52073

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If you're interested in WWII photographs, I strongly recommend
TheAtlantic.com - World War II in Photos

This series of entries was published weekly on TheAtlantic.com from June 19 through October 30, 2011, running every Sunday morning for 20 weeks. In this collection of 900 photos spread over 20 essays, I tried to explore the events of the war, the lives of the people fighting at the front and working back home, and the effects of the trauma on everyday activity. These images still give us glimpses into the experiences of our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, moments that shaped the world as it is today.

from World War II: The Battle of Britain:

A German twin propelled Messerschmitt BF 110 bomber, nicknamed "Fliegender Haifisch" (Flying Shark), over the English Channel, in August of 1940.


AP Photo


Two German Luftwaffe Ju 87 Stuka dive bombers return from an attack against the British south coast, during the Battle for Britain, on August 19, 1940.


AP Photo


A huge scrap heap where German planes, brought down over Great Britain, were dumped, photographed on August 27, 1940.


AP Photo

The large number of Nazi planes downed during raids on Britain made a substantial contribution to the national scrap metal salvage campaign.


Soldiers carrying off the tail of a Messerschmitt 110, which was shot down by fighter planes in Essex, England, on September 3, 1940.


AP Photo


A forward machine gunner sits at his battle position in the nose of a German Heinkel He 111 bomber, while en route to England in November of 1940.


AP Photo

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BOMBER
10 May 2011 Last updated at 02:51 GMT

Libya 1911: How an Italian pilot began the air war era
By Alan Johnston
BBC News


Giulio Gavotti at the controls of a
Farman biplane, Rome 1910

Italy recently said it was ready to join in Nato's air
attacks on targets in Libya - and with the
announcement came a sense of history repeating itself.

It was in Libya, almost exactly a century ago, that a
young Italian pilot carried out the first ever air raid.

During fighting in November 1911 between Italy and
forces loyal to the Turkish, Ottoman Empire, Lieutenant
Giulio Gavotti wrote in a letter to his father: "Today I
have decided to try to throw bombs from the aeroplane.

"It is the first time that we will try this and if I succeed,
I will be really pleased to be the first person to do it."

And soon afterwards Lieutenant Gavotti did indeed hang
out of his flimsy aircraft and fling a bomb at troops in a
desert oasis below.

In that instant he introduced the world to the idea of
war from the air. He had begun the age of the bomber,
and opened the door to all the horrors it would bring.

The BBC World Service has obtained copies of the
letters that the lieutenant wrote home from Libya. And
they reveal his thoughts at the moment he carried out
his historic, one-man raid.

At the time Italy was still a young country - unified
less than 50 years earlier.

It was energetic and eager for conquest, and saw
parts of the collapsing Ottoman Empire as ripe for the
taking - including territory in Libya.

With the outbreak of war, Lieutenant Gavotti was
ordered to help load several aircraft aboard a ship and
head for North Africa.

Bomb in pocket

He had imagined that he would only be flying
reconnaissance missions there, but then realised that
more was required of him.


Gavotti dropped the bombs from a Taube (Dove)
monoplane, designed by Austrian Igo Etrich

"Today two boxes full of bombs arrived," he wrote in a
letter to his father, sent from Naples. "We are expected
to throw them from our planes."

"It is very strange that none of us have been told about
this, and that we haven't received any instruction from
our superiors. So we are taking the bombs on board
with the greatest precaution.

"It will be very interesting to try them on the Turks."

By bringing aircraft to the battlefront, the Italians were
doing something new.

This was only eight years after the pioneering Wright
brothers in America had managed the first, short flight.
Flying was still in its infancy.

"As soon as the weather is clear, I head to the camp to
take my plane out," the Gavotti wrote.

"Near the seat, I have fixed a little leather case with
padding inside. I have laid the bombs in it very carefully.
These are small round bombs - weighing about a
kilo-and-a-half each. I put three in the case and another
one in the front pocket of my jacket."

Gavotti took off and headed for Ain Zara. It is now a
town just east of Tripoli, but at the time he described it
as a small oasis.

There he would have expected to find Arab fighters and
Turkish troops that were allied in the fight against the
Italian invasion.

Media praise


Gavotti's bomb at Ain Zara may not
have caused any casualties

In his letter, which was made available to the BBC by
his grandson, Paolo de Vecchi, the Lieutenant wrote:
"After a while, I notice the dark shape of the oasis.
With one hand, I hold the steering wheel, with the other
I take out one of the bombs and put it on my lap."

"I am ready. The oasis is about one kilometre away. I
can see the Arab tents very well.

"I take the bomb with my right hand, pull off the
security tag and throw the bomb out, avoiding the wing.

"I can see it falling through the sky for couple of
seconds and then it disappears. And after a little while,
I can see a small dark cloud in the middle of the
encampment.

"I have hit the target!

"I then send two other bombs with less success. I still
have one left which I decide to launch later on an oasis
close to Tripoli.

"I come back really pleased with the result. I go straight
to report to General Caneva. Everybody is satisfied."

Back home in Italy, the jingoistic press soon reported
the exploit with great delight.

With his small bomb, Lieutenant Gavotti may have
caused very few if any casualties in his lone raid on that
dusty, Libyan oasis.

But he had shown for the first time that it was possible
to carry out attacks from an aircraft.

And the many bombers who would come after him - those
who would strike at places like Guernica, Dresden and
Hiroshima - would do more damage and take more lives
than the young Italian pilot could ever have imagined.

from www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13294524


Monoplan Etrich Taube II., 1914


postcard reproduction
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monoplan_Etrich_Taube_II_1914_Austro_Hungarian_Monarchia.jpg

Monoplan Etrich Taube II. - Austro-Hungarian Monarchy - First military aeroplane in Austro-Hungarian Monarchy Army.

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Excellent posts Purgatorio 

Here is a link to some of my old aviation art, only a few, I have about 1000 already finished ....
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/52317125@N08/

I just found another old gallery of mine ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/36461849@N08/
I made diferent galleries.
Click on the Slideshow option for a quick view for all images

Wait a minute, here is another art gallery  ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/max_thehitman/with/6877638771/#photo_6877638771

You can also search Flickr by using 2 diferent names "max_thehitman" or "max-thehitman".
I have about 5 diferent art gallery accounts of which I have lost track over the years over at Flickr 

If your wondering, some of those airplanes are from IL-2-1946 put into aviation art 

Enjoy
MAX

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Here is a link to some of my old aviation art, only a few, I have about 1000 already finished .... http://www.flickr.com/photos/52317125@N08/

I just found another old gallery of mine ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/36461849@N08/
I made diferent galleries.
Click on the Slideshow option for a quick view for all images

Wait a minute, here is another art gallery ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/max_thehitman/with/6877638771/#photo_6877638771

You can also search Flickr by using 2 diferent names "max_thehitman" or "max-thehitman".
I have about 5 diferent art gallery accounts of which I have lost track over the years over at Flickr

If your wondering, some of those airplanes are from IL-2-1946 put into aviation art

Enjoy MAX

great stuff

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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
3. Fun Helped Them Fight, 1972


Artwork details Screenprint, lithograph and mixed media on paper, 371 x 258 mm

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Artist Michael Sandle, born 1936
Anti-Aircraft Memorial, 1977


Artwork details Watercolour, pencil on paper, 980 x 1480 mm

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José Clemente Orozco (Mexican, 1883–1949)
Dive Bomber and Tank, 1940


Details Fresco, six panels, overall 9 x 18' (275 x 550 cm)

This work was commissioned by the Museum in 1940 for the landmark exhibition Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art. It was painted by Orozco over a period of ten days, often in front of the viewing public.This six-panel fresco (intended to be arranged in any order) depicts abstracted elements of mechanical warfare, including the tail and wings of a bomber, tanktreads, and chains—as well as a pair of upturned human legs. Ironically, though, Orozco insisted it had "no political significance." He stated, "I simply paint the life that is going on at the present—what we are and what the world is at this moment. That is what modern art is."