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Night Bombers Getting Off from Trezennes Aerodrome, 1917 Art.IWMART4028

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Night Bombers Getting Off from Trezennes Aerodrome, 1917

image: A night scene at an aerodrome in northern France. An FE2b biplane night bomber is taking off on the right with a

single serviceman crouching on the ground in the centre foreground. In the background a line of bell tents are visible and a single. Aircraft is of RFC 100 Squadron, the world's first squadron formed specifically for night bombing (Greg Harrison, 100 Squadron Association Historian)

searchlight beam reaches up towards the full moon in the sky.

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1917 in art 1917 in aviation 1920 paintings aire sur la lys battles of ypres imperial war museum first world war artwork paintings of world war i by harold wyllie uk government artistic works great britain high resolution