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Picture No 10219833
Date 1944
Description The Gun Control Room, Britain; Second World War, 1944
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Interior of the Gun Control Room, the headquarters of London's anti-aircraft defences during the Second World War. Information regarding the movement of enemy airplanes was sent to this room and plotted on the maps. Then the senior staff (on the right) could co-ordinate London's anti-aircraft defence. This sketch was drawn by Captain Bryan de Grineau, the ILN special artist, during a visit to the Gun Control Room in 1944.
Source Drawn by Bryan de Grineau in 'The Illustrated London News',12 February 1944, pages 182 and 183.
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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