Bomber's Moon
by Ray Agius
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Title
Bomber's Moon
Artist
Ray Agius
Medium
Painting - Watercolour On Cold-pressed 300 Gsm Watercolour Paper
Description
Bomber's Moon
Watercolour
24" X 18"
Flight Lieutenant Mervyn Shipard DFC* RAAF was the pilot in a leading night fighter crew, with Douggie Oxby RAF, on 89 Squadron RAF on Malta and in North Africa 1942-43.
Already with one victory at night over the UK, they took a transfer to the Mediterranean rather than go on rest. They destroyed a total of thirteen enemy aircraft, probably destroyed and damaged others in dangerous night interceptions over Malta and on the north coast of Africa.
They survived crashes and potentially lethal flying at night and in bad weather. Shipard was a natural at this kind of flying and Oxby made the pair successful in night air combat. At all stages of his flying career Shipard was highly rated.
When called back to Australia by the government, Shipard became a valuable instructor but decided to take the opportunity of transferring to airline flying, and spent the rest of his career in that profession.
Many of Shipard's victims can be identified from German records he became the most successful Allied night fighter radar operator of WW2.
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