Bombers bound for Bavarian targets are attacked by anti-aircraft fire over Grado

Bombers bound for Bavarian targets are attacked by anti-aircraft fire over Grado

Four aircraft have been coned by searchlights amidst scattered bursts of anti-aircraft fire. The countryside is an indistinct mass of darkness, save for the yellow of the searchlights. Label reads “136”; signed by the author; caption reads “Caption reads “NOTTE del 20 AGOSTO 1944. Grosse formazioni della R.A.F. dirette contro obiettivi in Baviera contrastate dalla contraerea di Grado. S. Giorgio di Nogaro. UD”

Caption translates as: “Night-time, 20 August 1944. Large Royal Air Force formations en route to targets in Bavaria being shot by anti-aircraft batteries in Grado. San Giorgio di Nogaro (Udine province).”

One tempera on paper, pasted on mount board

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