Black, Jonathan (2016) "Havoc from the Heavens" : the contribution of British air power to the destruction of Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Turkish Forces in 1918 through the eyes of British war artist Lieutenant Sydney Carline RAF. In: The First World War in the Air Lunchtime Lecture Series; 12 Aug 2016, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)
Abstract
In a one hour lecture I sought to explore how and why the Royal Air Force made such a contribution to the complete rout of retreating Ottoman forces in Palestine in September 1918 and of Austro-Hungarian Armies in north-eastern Italy in October of the same year. Illustrations for the lecture came in the form of works from the collection of the IWM, London by Lt. Sydney Carline, a trained fighter pilot who had fought in France and in northern Italy and then spent the last 3 months of the British Campaign in Italy as official war artist. Then, between January and April 1919 Carline was again an official artist, this time sketching the battlefields of 1918 Palestine, Lebanon and Syria - where the evidence for the destruction inflicted by the RAF on the retreating Ottoman armies was still starkly evident on the ground.
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