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The survivor, painting by Eric Aldwinckle

This image is from the Book, "A Nation forged in Fire, Canadians and the Second World War 1939-1945"

by J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton, 1989.

(CWM10733). The artist Eric Aldwinckle was attached to Coastal Command and Fighter COmmand and sometimes flew on operational missions to try to understand the airmen he painted and admired. He has entitled this excellent painting "The Survivor"