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Ground Operational Exercise (GROPE) by Leslie Cole, oil on canvas.

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1756

Leslie Cole’s painting represents a ground operational exercise or 'GROPE' – a form of synthetic training for air crew which, to test concentration, simulated the demanding navigational conditions of a bombing raid.

Ground Operational Exercise, oil on canvas, by Leslie Cole, oil on canvas,1943, Crown copyright: expired.

Excavating Tunnel for RAF Control Rooms: Maltese Miners by Leslie Cole, oil on canvas.

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1834

After selling numerous Home Front pictures to the War Artists’ Advisory Committee, Cole was appointed an Official War Artist. For his first commission in 1943 he recorded the German Siege of Malta in its last months.

Excavating a tunnel for RAF Control Rooms: Maltese Miners by Leslie Cole, Crown copyright: expired / RAF Museum

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (III) by Dame Laura Knight, graphite on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01175

Dame Laura Knight’s study is part of a body of expressive drawings that explored the barrage balloon. She made these in preparation for a painting commissioned by the War Office to promote the recruitment of female operators for RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums).

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (III) by Dame Laura Knight, graphite on paper, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum

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).

Study for u2018Take Offu2019: Interior of a Stirling bomber and Crew by Dame Laura Knight, charcoal and watercolour on paper, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Squadron Leader Philip Robert Beare DFC by Eric Kennington, pastel on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, L001-1655

This pastel portrait is one of many made by Eric Kennington during his two-year full-time Official War Artist commission with the Air Ministry through the War Artists' Advisory Committee. A renowned portraitist, he was tasked with portraying high-ranking men in the RAF.

Squadron Leader Philip Robert Beare DFC by Eric Kennington, pastel on paper, 1940, © RAF Museum / RAF Museum

Photo Op by kennardphillipps, photomontage: digital inkjet print on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, X008-9481

This photomontage by Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps - collectively known as kennardphillipps - is a satirical reflection on former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s decision for Britain to invade Iraq with the United States and an example of protest art made in opposition to the Iraq War (2003-11).

kennardphillipps 2006 photomontage inkjet print representing former prime minister Tony Blair taking a 'selfie' photograph with his phone in front of burning oil fields in Iraq., RAF Museum

St. John Ambulance Brigade at Work in a London Underground Station by Doris Zinkeisen, watercolour and gouache on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01160

This work represents one of the many first-aid posts established in London Underground shelters during the Second World War. It shows Civil Defence workers’ combined duties of medical and Air Raid Precautions support.

Doris Zinkeisen watercolour of an underground shelter scene of a first aid post with St John Ambulance nurses, Trustees of the Royal Air Force Museum / RAF Museum

Raider on the Moor by Paul Nash, lithograph

Fine Art, In Storage, FA00292

This lithograph was published by the National Gallery after an original watercolour by Paul Nash from his series ‘Raiders’, commissioned through the War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC) in 1940

Raider on the Moor by Paul Nash, lithograph, Crown copyright: expired. / RAF Museum

Going to be Decorated: Bomber Command by Alfred Reginald Thomson, oil on canvas

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, L001-1885

In this work, Bomber Command airmen in a hut celebrate news of their awards for distinguished service. After an evening of drinking, they have left behind an empty decanter and glasses, and have playfully climbed to the rafters of the building.

Going to be Decorated: Bomber Command by Alfred Reginald Thomson, oil on canvas, Consult Collection Curator before use. / RAF Museum

Statue of Winged Victory From a Photograph by Robert Thomas Griffin, graphite on paper

Fine Art, London, Art Gallery, Hangar Three, FA05560

This drawing represents the Greek Hellenic sculpture, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, from Paris’ Louvre Museum, recovered from the Aegean Sea in 1863.

Robert Thomas Griffin graphite drawing of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, Artist's copyright expired / RAF Museum / RAF Museum