Picture No | 10271666 |
Date | September 1940 |
Description | Home Guard training against bombers |
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Training for the Home Guard at Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London. Riflemen being trained to meet dive-bombing attacks by practising rapid fire against a diving model that represents a 50 foot span plane diving from a height of 1500 feet.
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Source | Illustration by Terence T Cuneo in the Illustrated London News, 14th September 1940 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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