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"Smiling airman" by William Little, Possibly 1940. Gouache on board.

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"Smiling airman" by Little, Possibly 1940

Catalogue ref: INF 3/1706Links to the Catalogue


The head of a smiling airman in flying kit, surrounded by three Hurricane fighter-aircraft. Probably produced during the Battle of Britain, when Churchill claimed that ‘Never was so much owed by so many to so few'.

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