Bomber's Moon, by Alan Moore, 1962. Moore's post-war painting shows a bomber stream over a German city with searchlights seeking the bombers and enemy 'flak' fire exploding around them. Keith Campbell, who flew with No. 466 Squadron RAAF, described what it was like to be near 'flak': You could hear the flak rattling against the under side of the aircraft. There were literally, on a big target there were literally hundreds of flak guns just pouring up a carpet of shells. They weren't aimed at anyone. They'd just pick out a pattern of say, 2000 feet thick, a mile wide and half-a-mile long and they'd just pour up shells in that area knowing that the planes had to fly through it. So there was always flak there. If you happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time you'd hit one of them directly or one of them would hit you. [Interview, Keith Campbell, Australians at War Film Archive; AWM ART27553, oil on canvas, 152.2 x 274 cm]
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