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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, shipping, flag / banner / standard, artillery, military personnel Description: whole: the image occupies the majority, with a smaller image placed in the lower left, held within a blue circular inset. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower fifth, in black. All set against a white background and held within a yellow border. image: a depiction of a member of the British Merchant Navy, manning an anti-aircraft gun on board a merchant vessel at sea. The smaller image is a Red Ensign. text: THE BRITISH MERCHANT NAVY AT WAR: No. 2 ONE OF THE GUNS WHICH GUARD AGAINST AERIAL ATTACK Here is a light anti-aircraft gun aboard a British Merchant Navy ship. The gunners of merchant ships and fishing vessels had shot down 119 enemy aircraft up to November 1943, out of a total of over 1,000 enemy planes destroyed by them and the Royal Navy or by the Fleet Air Arm. In spite of enemy bombers and U-boats, the British Merchant Navy brings between 30 and 40 million tons of vital raw materials and foodstuffs to Britain every year. FOR VICTORY G.P.D. 365/13/22 Object: ship, flag, artillery piece | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5160... | Go to resource |
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