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Plane Crash in Sussex: Summer 1940

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Plane Crash in Sussex: Summer 1940
Plane Crash in Sussex: Summer 1940
Plane Crash in Sussex: Summer 1940

Plane Crash in Sussex: Summer 1940

Date1940
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 1552a
Date Order NumberAG 40.65
Dimensionspaper: 191 x 276 mm
Signature

pen and ink l.r. Moore/40

OwnershipImperial War Museum, London
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The aircraft, a Heinkel 111, was shot down at High Salvington, near Worthing in Sussex, on 16 August 1940 during the second phase of the Battle of Britain. Moore may have made this and the following drawing as a result of a visit to his former art teacher Alice Gostick, who had a house in High Salvington, or from a photograph in the Worthing Gazette. As already noted, some war drawings dated 1940 predate the Shelter Sketchbooks.

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