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Description: | image: A blue sky with the small white figures of aircraft surrounded by puffs of anti-aircraft fire known as
'archies'.
In his autobiography, 'Paint and Prejudice', Nevinson describes a balloon ride he made at the Front in July 1917 which
echoes the subject of this work: 'I was enthralled until a German 'plane saw us and zoomed down with a hail of bullets from his machine
gun. So far my life had been varied, but never before had I been hung up in the sky for a foreign gentleman to exercise his skill on me.
Fortunately he proved to be no crack shot, and after the first few bursts from his gun the anti-aircraft, or Archies, took up the cudgels
on our behalf.' | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 01/3(4-15) Imperial German Army Air Service aerial view Western Front Artillery First World War Aircraft Accidents | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Nevinson, C R W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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