Anti-aircraft gunnery course
Merchant seamen receiving instruction in the art of anti-aircraft gunnery through the services of a mobile DEMS (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships) course. In this image, the seamen are being trained to track and ‘lead’ an approaching enemy aircraft through the gun sight of a close range anti-aircraft weapon. The 'target' is a small model aircraft suspended from the side of the converted double-decker bus. The port in which this scene took place has yet to be identified.
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Object Details
ID: | AD13340 |
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Collection: | Historic Photographs |
Type: | Sheet film negative |
Display location: | Not on display |
Exhibition: | Arctic Convoys |
Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Sheet: 60 mm x 100 mm |