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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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