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Royal Air Force 401 Squadron. Supermarine Spitfire of 401 Squadron during the Normandy Landings shown in aviation art prints available from Cranston Fine Arts the aviation art company, part of the Royal Air Force squadron's history in aviation art.

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Victory Over Gold by Nicolas Trudgian.


Victory Over Gold by Nicolas Trudgian.

Frustrated by the absence of Luftwaffe aircraft over the Normandy beaches on D-Day, Allied fighter pilots were spoiling for a fight. When a dozen Ju88s appeared over Gold Beach on the following morning, June 7, 1944, the patrolling Spitfires of 401 Squadron wasted no time in getting into the fray. At just after 0800 hours twelve Junkers Ju88s appeared out of the 2000ft. cloud base, intent on making a diving attack on the heavily populated beachhead. Wheeling their Spitfires into the on-coming attack, Squadron Leader Cameron, C.O. of 401 Squadron, called his pilots to pick their own targets, and all hell broke loose. In the ensuing dogfight 401 Squadrons Canadian pilots destroyed no fewer than six of the Ju88s, and the attack on the beach was averted. Nicolas Trudgian recreates the scene as Flying Officer Arthur Bishop, son of WWI Ace Billy Bishop, brings down one of the Ju88s that day. With its starboard engine on fire, and its hydraulics shot away, the doomed Luftwaffe fighter-bomb.........

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Item Code : DHM2037Victory Over Gold by Nicolas Trudgian. - Editions Available
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PRINT Limited edition of 400 prints.
Full Item Details		Print size 34 inches x 24 inches (86cm x 64cm) Brothers, Peter
Neil, Tom
Currant, Christopher
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PROOF		 Limited edition of 15 artist proofs.
Full Item Details		 Paper size 34 inches x 24 inches (86cm x 64cm) Brothers, Peter
Neil, Tom
Currant, Christopher
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Full Item Details		Prints size 34 inches x 24 inches (86cm x 64cm) Bishop, Arthur
Brothers, Peter
Neil, Tom
Currant, Christopher
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Full Item Details		 Paper size 34 inches x 24 inches (86cm x 64cm) Bishop, Arthur
Brothers, Peter
Neil, Tom
Currant, Christopher
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Neil, Tom
Currant, Christopher
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Royal Air Force fighter aircraft, maximum speed for mark I Supermarine Spitfire, 362mph up to The Seafire 47 with a top speed of 452mph. maximum ceiling for Mk I 34,000feet up to 44,500 for the mark XIV.  Maximum range for MK I 575 miles . up to  1475 miles for the Seafire 47. Armament for the various Marks of Spitfire. for MK I, and II . eight fixed .303 browning Machine guns, for MK's V-IX and XVI two 20mm Hispano cannons and four .303 browning machine guns. and on later Marks, six to eight Rockets under the wings or a maximum bomb load of 1,000 lbs.

Designed by R J Mitchell, The proto type Spitfire first flew on the 5th March 1936. and entered service with the Royal Air Force in August 1938, with 19 squadron based and RAF Duxford. by the outbreak of World war two, there were twelve squadrons with a total of 187 spitfires, with another 83 in store. Between 1939 and 1945, a large variety of modifications and developments produced a variety of MK,s from I to XVI.  The mark II came into service in late 1940, and in March 1941, the Mk,V came into service.  To counter the Improvements in fighters of the Luftwaffe especially the FW190, the MK,XII was introduced with its Griffin engine.  The Fleet Air Arm used the Mk,I and II and were named Seafires.

By the end of production in 1948 a total of 20,351 spitfires had been made and 2408 Seafires.  The most produced variant was the Spitfire Mark V, with a total of 6479 spitfires produced.  The Royal Air Force kept Spitfires in front line use until April 1954.

Victory Over Gold by Nicholas Trudgian   Spitfires of 401 Squadron over the Normandy beaches, June 1944.   Signed by Pete Brothers, Bunny Currant, Tom Neil. 
 

 


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