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{{Creator:William Lionel Wyllie}}
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Night bombing of German trenches RMG PW1551, Night bombing of German trenches
This sinisterly atmospheric night composition was previously mistakenly described as a German raid on the lower reaches of the Thames: it is in fact a raid by British aircraft on German trenches in France or Belgium , sometime between late 1916 and the end of the First World War.  The aircraft are Royal Aircraft Factory  F.E.2b fighter-bombers, which entered service in summer 1915 as fighters and were relegated to night bombing in late 1916, serving as such in France until the end of the war.  The F.E.2b was a single-engined two-seater 'push-prop' biplane, armed with two machine guns and capable of a speed of 91.5 mph (147 kmh).
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Night bombing of German trenches RMG PW1551, Bombing during World War I, Battles of World War I, Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2, William Lionel Wyllie, Prints, drawings and watercolours of the Royal Museums Greenwich
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RMG PW1551、ドイツの塹壕に対する夜間爆撃 この不吉な大気の夜の組成は、以前はテムズ川下流へのドイツの襲撃と誤って説明されていた。航空機は王立航空機工場のF.E.2b戦闘爆撃機で、1915年夏に戦闘機として運用を開始し、1916年後半に夜間爆撃に降格され、終戦までフランスで使用されていた。F.E.2bは、2台の機関銃を装備し、91.5 mph (147 kmh)の速度で飛行可能な単発複葉機である。夜間爆撃
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ドイツの塹壕の夜間爆撃 RMG PW1551、第一次世界大戦爆撃、第一次世界大戦の戦闘、王立航空機工場 F.E.2、ウィリアム・ライオネル・ワイリー、版画、図面、グリニッジ王立博物館の水彩画
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single prop relegate relegation artillery fire