A Balloon Site, Coventry

 

Saịtị Balloon, Coventry bụ eserese mmanụ na-akwa akwa mere na 1942 nke onye omenkà Britain Laura Knight mere. Ọ na-egosi otu ndị mmadụ-karịsịa ndị inyom-na-arụ ọrụ iji malite balloon na mpụga Coventry, obodo mmepụta ihe dị na Midlands bụ nke e bu n'obi wakpo bọmbụ German na November 1940, mgbe a tụbara ihe karịrị 10,000 bọmbụ na-agba ọkụ n'ebe ahụ. obodo.

Knight sere In for Repairs, na-egosi ndị otu Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) ka ha na-arụzi balloon barrage mebiri emebi, na mbido 1942. Ndị ọrụ ụgbọ elu masịrị ha nke ukwuu nke na ha gwara ya ka ọ na-ese WAAF n'ọrụ. Kọmitii Advisory War Artists' (WAAC) nyere ya ọrụ ma kwụọ 100 guineas maka ọrụ ahụ, bụ nke e mere na July na August 1942. E gosipụtara saịtị Balloon na 1943 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, tinyere Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech. - mgbanaka (1943).

 

Background

Ndị otu Women's Auxiliary Air Force na-adọkpụ balloon na ebe dị n'ụsọ oké osimiri.

From March 1939, Coventry had been protected by barrage balloons; the city was an industrial target and contained aircraft factories on the outskirts. The balloons were filled with hydrogen and were either set in fixed sites, or adapted for mobile deployment. They were fixed by steel cables which forced bombers to fly at a higher altitude than they would have preferred. In this way the bombing was less accurate, and the aeroplanes more vulnerable to ground-based anti-aircraft fire. The protection was not infallible, and, on 14 November 1940 Coventry was the target of a German bombing raid when over 10,000 incendiary bombs were dropped on the city. From April 1941 women were used to operate the balloons, a crew of fourteen women replacing the ten men that did so previously.

Akụkọ ihe mere eme

N'oge Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ, gọọmentị Britain guzobere Kọmitii ndụmọdụ ndị na-ese ihe (WAAC) n'okpuru onyeisi oche nke Sir Kenneth Clark, onye nduzi nke National Gallery. Kọmitii ahụ bụ "depụta ndepụta nke ndị na-ese ihe ruru eru idekọ agha ahụ n'ụlọ na mba ofesi". [5] Otu n'ime ndị e nyere iwu n'ọtụtụ oge bụ onye Britain na-ese ihe Laura Knight, onye sere ihe maka gọọmentị Canada n'oge Agha Ụwa Mbụ. [6] Ka ọ na-erule mmalite afọ 1942, o sere foto anọ maka WAAF; nke kachasị ọhụrụ bụ In for Repairs, na-egosi ndị otu Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) na-edozi balloon mebiri emebi. Ministri ụgbọelu nwere mmasị na foto ahụ na ikike ya iji nyere aka n'ịkpọbata ndị ọrụ. Ministri ahụ jụrụ WAAF ma ọ bụrụ na enwere ike inye Knight ọrụ ọzọ, ma, n'ọnwa Ọktoba 1941, ọ natara arịrịọ site n'aka Maazị Dickey, odeakwụkwọ nke WAAC, ka ọ see ndị otu Women's Auxiliary Air Force nke dị na RAF Wythall - isi ụlọ ọrụ mpaghara nke RAF Balloon Command - nke dị kilomita isii (kilomita iri) site na Birmingham.[7] Ọ rụrụ ọrụ na July na August 1942, ma kwụọ ya 100 guineas maka ọrụ ahụ. [8][9]

E gosipụtara Balloon Site na 1943 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, dị ka Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring, ihe osise Knight ka dechara. A nabatara ọrụ abụọ ahụ nke ọma. [8] Ka ọ na-erule 2024, ihe osise ahụ dị n'aka Imperial War Museum.[1]

Ihe osise

A Balloon Site bụ Ihe osise mmanụ na ákwà na-atụle 102.5 site na 127 sentimita (3.36 . Ọ na-egosi ịgbapụ bọl na mpụga Coventry. N'etiti etiti bụ ọtụtụ ụlọ mebiri emebi, na akụkụ mkpọmkpọ ebe Coventry gosipụtara n'azụ. [10][9] N'ihu, ìgwè abụọ na-arụ ọrụ n'ịgba bọl ahụ. Ìgwè ahụ dị n'ihu - nke ụmụ nwanyị atọ na otu nwoke mejupụtara - nọ n'okpuru nduzi nke Jean Brydon, onye isi nwanyị. A na-egosi otu nke abụọ n'akụkụ dị anya nke bọl ahụ. [10][11][12]

Dị ka ndị ọkọ akụkọ ihe mere eme Teresa Grimes, Judith Collins na Oriana Baddeley si kwuo, A Balloon Site na In For Repairs "na-ekwu maka ọrụ, itinye uche na itinye uche n'ọrụ nke otu mgbalị na-emepụta bụ isi ihe mejupụtara ha. " [13]