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Out of the Night - The First To Go In by Robert Taylor. (AP) - Aviation Art Prints

Out of the Night - The First To Go In by Robert Taylor. (AP)


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Out of the Night - The First To Go In by Robert Taylor. (AP)

Silently out of the night they came. With flaps deployed, three timber and plywood Horsa gliders swept swiftly down through the night skies, rapidly closing with their objective - Pegasus Bridge over the Caen Canal. On board, with tension etched deep into their blackened faces, men from the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, part of the British 6th Airborne Division, braced themselves for landing. They, and sappers from the Royal Engineers, were about to become the first fighting force to land in France on D-Day. They were about to make history.


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Item Code : DHM1818APOut of the Night - The First To Go In by Robert Taylor. (AP) - This Edition
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D-Day edition of 25 artist proofs

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Paper size 25.5 inches x 21.5 inches (65cm x 54cm) Bishop, Roy
Bourlet, Frank
Bright, Peter Rocky
Watson, Stan
Brewer, Ernie
Hopkins, Harry
Sankey, Frank
Fisher, John
Whitbread, Alf
Gray, Billy
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £180
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Other editions of this item : Out of the Night - The First To Go In by Robert Taylor.DHM1818
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PRINT Signed limited edition of 300 prints. Paper size 25.5 inches x 21.5 inches (65cm x 54cm) Whitbread, Alf
Gray, Billy
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £60
£95.00VIEW EDITION...
PRINT D-Day edition of 200 prints
Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item!
Paper size 25.5 inches x 21.5 inches (65cm x 54cm) Bishop, Roy
Bourlet, Frank
Bright, Peter Rocky
Watson, Stan
Brewer, Ernie
Hopkins, Harry
Sankey, Frank
Fisher, John
Whitbread, Alf
Gray, Billy
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £180
£135.00VIEW EDITION...
General descriptions of types of editions :


Signatures on this item
*The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare.
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Craftsman Roy Bishop
*Signature Value : £25

Landing at Gold beach on D-Day + 3, he served in a Light Aid Detachment of the 49th Division (Polar Bear) as part of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. These Light Aid Detachments provided dedicated logistical support to Armour and Infantry units handling the repair of all weapons, optics and vehicles including tanks and armoured cars.
Gunner Ernie Brewer L d Hon
*Signature Value : £10

Ernie Brewer landed on Gold Beach on D-Day with the 5th Battalion, Royal Horse Artillery, part of the 7th Armoured Division - the Desert Rats - equipped with Sexton 25pdr self-propelled guns.
Lance Corporal Harry Hopkins
*Signature Value : £10

Fighting with the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade, also part of the 7th Armoured Division, Desert Rats, Harry Hopkins landed on Gold Beach on D-Day + 9, June 1944.


Private Alf Whitbread (deceased)
*Signature Value : £35

Alf Whitbread, known in the war as 'Lucky Jim' was born in Twickenham, London and when his father got a job in the Building Research Station in Garston the family moved to Watford. Alf Whitbread left school to become a machine engineer, but was encouraged to volunteer for the army after hearing a patriotic speech on the radio. On June 19th, 1940, Alf Whitbread went to the Edgeware recruiting office and joined the Royal West Kent Youth Battalion at the age of 18 and in 1942 in Ireland, Alf heard rumours about a newly formed airborne unit and volunteered. Alf said : 'We thought we were going to be in the paratroopers, who were mad, but we finished up in the gliders and the paratroopers thought we were mad.' Alf Served with 17 Platoon of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He landed as part of the Coup de Main operation on Glider No.6 into Pegasus bridge in the early hours of D-Day. Alf was part of the second group of gliders which landed first at Horsa Bridge, before taking part in the battle for Pegasus Bridge, (the subject of the film 'The Longest Day'.) They sent the message 'ham and jam', a code confirming they had captured both bridges. The men held off many counter attacks by German troops and tanks until midday on June 6th. Alf would later say 'Two of our gliders were sent to secure Horsa bridge and frankly, it was a walk over. Our platoon never lost a man. We secured the bridge and then, when another platoon relieved us, we went and joined John Howard on Pegasus Bridge.' Alf Whitbread was later to take part in Operation Varsity, the last major battle of the war in Europe. On March 24th 1945 Operation Varsity was launched. The aim was to take a bridge over the Rhine again by gliderborne troops. Almost 1,500 men of the Ox and Bucks died during the operation, and Lucky Jim lived up to his reputation before his glider even landed. Alf would say: 'They say dont volunteer for anything, but I did and it worked out to my benefit. I remember when we were set to get on a glider on the way for the Rhine crossing and it was too full. I was detailed to another glider. They both crash landed. All the troops in the first glider were killed. Only three of us got out of the other glider alive, after it broke in half.' After the war Alf Whitbread joined London Transport as an engineer for 40 years and in all that time Alf never took a day off due to illness. With great sadness we have been told that Alf has passed away peacefully on 19th March 2011 at the age of 88. Cranston Fine Arts feel very honoured to have had Alf sign some of our art prints.
Private Billy Gray
*Signature Value : £25

The first man out of Glider No. 1 into Pegasus Bridge as part of the Coup de Main operation in the early hours of D-Day. He served with 25 Platoon of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Private Frank Bourlet
*Signature Value : £10

Fought at the Pegasus Bridge action with 25 Platoon, D Company, 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 6th Armoured Division.
Private Frank Sankey
*Signature Value : £15

Frank Sankey landed on Juno Beach with the 5th/7th Gordon Highlanders, part of the 51st Highland Division.
Private Stan Watson
*Signature Value : £15

Landing at Pegasus Bridge in Horsa Glide No.1, Stan Watson served with 25 Platoon, 2nd Battalion, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Sergeant Peter Rocky Bright
*Signature Value : £10

Peter Bright, serving with 23 Platoon, 2nd Battalion, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, flew in Horsa Glider No.5 during the coup de main operation against Pegasus Bridge on 6th June 1944. In August he was wounded by shrapnel, posted back to England and promoted to Sergeant.
Squadron Leader John Fisher DFC
*Signature Value : £25

John Fisher served with 644 Squadron flying Special Duties Halifaxes on supply drops to resistance movements throughout North West Europe, and dropping personnel for SOE duties. On the night of 5th June, he flew Halifax LL219 towing a Horsa glider as part of the assault on Pegasus Bridge. In two operations on D-Day + 1 he towed two further gliders into the Normandy area. He later flew two more glider operations over Arnhem, and another on the Rhine crossing. He received the DFC (USA) which was presented to him by General Jimmy Doolittle.
The Aircraft :
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HalifaxRoyal Air Force heavy Bomber with a crew of six to eight. Maximum speed of 280mph (with MK.VI top speed of 312mph) service ceiling of 22,800feet maximum range of 3,000 miles. The Halifax carried four .303 browning machine guns in the tail turret, two .303 browning machines in the nose turret in the MK III there were four .303 brownings in the dorsal turret. The Handley Page Halifax, first joined the Royal Air Force in March 1941 with 35 squadron. The Halifax saw service in Europe and the Middle east with a variety of variants for use with Coastal Command, in anti Submarine warfare, special duties, glider-tugs, and troop transportation roles. A total of 6177 Halifax's were built and stayed in service with the Royal Air Force until 1952
HorsaThe Airspeed AS 51 Horsa named after Horsa the legendary conqueror of southern Britain in the 5th century was built by Airspeed Ltd during the second world war. The Horsa was a troop carrying glider that also could carry light vehicles. On the 19th / 20th November 1942 the Horsa was used for the first time for Operation Freshman, the unsuccessful attack at Rjukan in Norway on the German heavy water plant. The two Horsa gliders, each carrying 15 sappers, and one of the two Halifax Bombers used to tow the gliders, crashed in Norway due to bad weather. All 23 survivors from the glider crashes were executed on the orders of Adolf Hitler. In preparation for further operational deployment, 30 Horsa gliders were air-towed by Halifax bombers from Great Britain to North Africa but three aircraft were lost in transit. On 10 July 1943, 27 surviving Horsas were used in the invasion of Sicily during Operation Husky. During the Normandy landings over 250 Horsa Gliders were used by British and US Forces. The first units to land in France during the Battle for Normandy were at Pegasus Bridge where 6 Horsas were used in the capture of the bridge over the Caen canal, and a further bridge over the River Orne. In 1944 large numbers were also used for Operation Dragoon and Operation Market Garden, and in March 1945 Horsas again were used during Operation Varsity and the final operation for the Horsa when 440 gliders carried soldiers of the 6th Airborne Division across the Rhine. The Horsa Glider was towed by a variety of aircraft, usually bombers. The Short Stirling, Handley Page Halifax, Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and the Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle and also the Douglas C-47 Dakota. During Operation Market Garden, a total of 1,336 C-47s along with 340 Stirlings were employed to tow 1,205 gliders, and Curtiss C-46 Commando. They were towed with a harness that attached to points on both wings, and also carried a intercom between tug and glider. The glider pilots were usually from the Glider Pilot Regiment, part of the Army Air Corps, although Royal Air Force pilots were used on this occasion.

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