Picture from the operations room at RAF Watnall
A most wonderful object has surfaced recently relating to the underground control room at RAF Watnall.A painting for the purpose of aircraft recognition by the celebrated marine artist, Harold Wyllie M.B.E Supplied to the intelligence office, No 12 Group, RAF, this picture hung in the control room at Watnall, 1941 - 1945, or possibly even till 1946 when the group HQ was moved to RAF Newton. Harold Wyllie, son of the famous artist of the same name, was mostly a painter of marine images, sail ships, Napoleonic battle scenes, etc. Born in London in 1898, he served as a pilot with the Royal Flying Corps during WW1, was a founding member of the Royal Society of Marine Artist, and its vice-president in 1858, and was the Honourable Marine Painter to the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, 1934 - 1946. His numerous works of Naval art are displayed in galleries and collections around the world. Believed to be his only work relating to German Aircraft, it is unknown how this piece came about. It