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'D-Day June 6th 1944, A Triumph of Air Power'
Artist: Frank Wootton
#dday #dday76 #Spitfire #theaviationart #Paintings #Artwork #Aviationart #Airplane #Planes #warbird #carrierplanes #militaryhistory #fighteraircraft #aviationpic #airforce #flight #plane #art #military #ww2
May 18-Deportation of the Crimean Tatars Memorial Day
In May 1944, about 238,500 Crimean Tatars deported from Crimea as ordered by Soviet leader Stalin. As of 2014, history repeated as Crimean Tatar people continue facing persecution by Russian occupying forces. #CrimeaisUkraine
Probably the most important moment in the #Museum's history is when Robert Stewart Whipple presented his #collection of over 1000 scientific instruments to @Cambridge_Uni! In November 1944, an #exhibition was held to show off the new gift. #MuseumMomentsMW
Bell P-39 Airacobra 1941 – 1944, Number built 9,588 #warbird #airplane #aircraft #bellp39 #p39 #watercolor #illustration #sketch #usk #watercolorsketch
“Sugar Shanty, L’Islet”, 1944, by A.Y. Jackson. Every year in March from 1921-1947 “Pere Raquette” painted in the small villages below Quebec City. He knew the customs of the locals, their card games, and their folk songs. $22,500. at https://t.co/H0WgdauDP9. #BeaverHallGroup
To some, it looks like a giant chicken running across the sky. To others, it looks like a gaseous nebula where star formation takes place. Cataloged as IC 2944, the Running Chicken Nebula spans about 100 light years and lies about 6,000 light years away https://t.co/rCamwLU7Xs
Enzo Sciotti, born September 24, 1944, in Rome, Italy, is an Italian artist and illustrator. Sciotti is known for his illustrations of more than 3000 movie posters, including The Beyond, Demons, The Blood of Heroes and several Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava films.
The non-erotic (as in Druuna) work of Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, of Venice Italy.
His birthday is Leap Day, 1944, so he'll be 19 this Leap Day 2020.
Northern art: "The Road to Work" 1964...A Mining village by #TomMcGuinness (British,1926-2006)..#PitmanArtist..
McGuinness was a coal miner and artist, conscripted to Fishburn Colliery...
#BevanBoy 1944, from #Spennymoor #CoDurham..
Covers from @NewYorker telling us there is a New Year!
From 1961, 1926, 1944, and 1946.
#NewYears2020
World War II 1943-1944, Cannon towels ads look rather homoerotic now , but caused no controversy at the time of publication. They were illustrated by Stevan Dohanos, Fred Ludekens and James Bingham.
#WWII #1940s #VintageAds #Art #Illustration
Born on this day in 1944, three-time #BAFTA Film Award-winning, and six-time #AcademyAward and four-time #GoldenGlobe Award-nominated Australian director, writer, producer #PeterWeir
#TheYearOfLivingDangerously (1982)
#DeadPoetsSociety (1989)
#TheTrumanShow (1998)
#iafpics365 [224/365] On 11 Aug 1944, 75 yrs ago, Nos 4 & 9 Sqns @IAF_MCC participated in one of their largest combined attacks, alongside 67 & 273 Sqns RAF and 459th FS USAAF, on a Japanese base at Hparabyin. It must have been one of the IAF's most spectacular moments ...
day 944, #outfitaugust for 'Monster", Tizzy in her favorite kigu ^^
Remembering "Little Prince" author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea on this day in 1944, with his original watercolors for the beloved book and the bittersweet true story behind it https://t.co/KbUNzw9OlC
Remembering "Little Prince" author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea on this day in 1944, with his original watercolors for the beloved book and the bittersweet true story behind it https://t.co/KbUNzw9OlC