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Harriers are the subject of our latest image gallery by artist Mark Bromley. Originally commissioned for the Heritage collection at BAE Systems, these paintings…

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: The Liberation of Paris, August 1944

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: the struck Japanese fleet carrier Amagi, 24 July 1945

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: captured Luftwaffe crewmen, London Underground, 1940

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BEHIND THE IMAGE: Wind tunnel testing, Messerschmitt Bf 109, 1940

It may look like a scene from a movie shoot – Germany’s answer to The Dam Busters, perhaps – but this strikingly modern photograph from…

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