secret_smut_account@lemmynsfw.com to Traditional Art@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoAmong the London Searchlights, 1918 - Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889 - 1946)lemmynsfw.comimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down10
arrow-up1106arrow-down1imageAmong the London Searchlights, 1918 - Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889 - 1946)lemmynsfw.comsecret_smut_account@lemmynsfw.com to Traditional Art@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squareImgonnatrythislinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 months agoBeautiful piece. They were looking for bombers I presume? What would they do if they saw one? Could hitting the planes with the spots help distract the pilots perhaps?
minus-squareschmorp@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoWWI didn’t really have bombers? At least not fly-over-the-channel-worthy ones? Or am I so bad at remembering my aeronautics history?
minus-squareGrumpydaddy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-26 months agoIt did, a quick search turns up a dedicated bombing campaign using zepplins. Who would have thought!
minus-squareschmorp@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoWow thanks for taking the time to look this up. Zeppelins, had no idea.
minus-squarekindenough@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoMust have been sketched from a blimp, I wonder.
minus-squareschmorp@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoSneaky Chris was in with the Krauts, damn!
Beautiful piece. They were looking for bombers I presume? What would they do if they saw one? Could hitting the planes with the spots help distract the pilots perhaps?
WWI didn’t really have bombers? At least not fly-over-the-channel-worthy ones? Or am I so bad at remembering my aeronautics history?
It did, a quick search turns up a dedicated bombing campaign using zepplins. Who would have thought!
Wow thanks for taking the time to look this up. Zeppelins, had no idea.
Must have been sketched from a blimp, I wonder.
Sneaky Chris was in with the Krauts, damn!