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Action This Day by Richard Taylor. (AP) - Aviation Art Prints

Action This Day by Richard Taylor. (AP)


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Action This Day by Richard Taylor. (AP)

A cold winters morning, as dawn breaks over RAF Lissett, revealing that last nights biting wind has once again brought a covering of snow to the airfield. But, with conditions forecast to improve, tonights operation to bomb industrial targets in Germany is set to proceed, and ground crew start to prepare Halifax Mk3 LV907 F-Freddy, simply known as Friday 13th, for action. This iconic aircraft flew an impressive total of 128 operational sorties with 158 Squadron between March 1944 and April 1945.


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Item Code : DHM1902APAction This Day by Richard Taylor. (AP) - This Edition
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Limited edition of 25 artist proofs.

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Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm) Spivey, Maurice
Statham, Rex
Tunstall, Fred
Coles, Tommy
Irons, Harry
Petrie-Andrews, John
Slack, Dennis
Bryett, Alan
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £205
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Other editions of this item : Action This Day by Richard Taylor.DHM1902
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PRINTSigned limited edition of 350 prints. Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm) Spivey, Maurice
Statham, Rex
Tunstall, Fred
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £65
£50 Off!Add any two items on this offer to your basket, and the lower priced item will be half price in the checkout!Now : £110.00VIEW EDITION...
PRINTCollectors edition of 70 prints.
Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item!
Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm) Spivey, Maurice
Statham, Rex
Tunstall, Fred
Coles, Tommy
Irons, Harry
Petrie-Andrews, John
Slack, Dennis
Bryett, Alan
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £205
£150.00VIEW EDITION...
PRINTRAF Bomber Command Tribute edition of 10 prints (supplied with original pencil drawing). Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm) Spivey, Maurice
Statham, Rex
Tunstall, Fred
Coles, Tommy
Irons, Harry
Petrie-Andrews, John
Slack, Dennis
Bryett, Alan
Bennett, Donald (matted)
Cheshire, Leonard (matted)
Hodges, Lewis (matted)
Tait, J B Willie (matted)
Walker, Augustus (matted)
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £435
£1095.00VIEW EDITION...
FLYERPromotional Flyer A4 Size Double Sheet 11.5 inches x 8 inches (30m x 21cm)noneAdd any two items on this offer to your basket, and the lower priced item will be half price in the checkout!£2.00VIEW EDITION...
PRINTLimited edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm) Spivey, Maurice
Statham, Rex
Tunstall, Fred
Coles, Tommy
Irons, Harry
Petrie-Andrews, John
Slack, Dennis
Bryett, Alan
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £205
£395.00VIEW EDITION...
REMARQUELimited edition of 10 double remarques. Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm) Spivey, Maurice
Statham, Rex
Tunstall, Fred
Coles, Tommy
Irons, Harry
Petrie-Andrews, John
Slack, Dennis
Bryett, Alan
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £205
£625.00VIEW EDITION...
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*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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Flight Lieutenant Alan Bryett
*Signature Value : £10

Bomb Aimer, 158 Squadron.
Flight Lieutenant Fred Tunstall DFC
*Signature Value : £20

Rear Gunner, 158 Squadron.


The signature of Flight Lieutenant John Petrie-Andrews DFC DFM

Flight Lieutenant John Petrie-Andrews DFC DFM
*Signature Value : £45

John Petrie-Andrews joined the RAF in 1940. After training as a pilot, in January 1943 he was posted to join 102 (Ceylon) Squadron at Pocklington for his first tour, flying Halifaxes. In February 1943 he transferred to 158 Squadron, still on Halifaxes. John the joined 35 Squadron, one of the original squadrons forming the Pathfinder Force. Here he flew first Halifaxes before converting to Lancasters. John Petrie-Andrews completed a total of 70 operations on heavy bombers, including 60 with the Pathfinders.
Flight Lieutenant Tommy Coles DFC
*Signature Value : £20

Having completed training as a pilot, he joined 158 Sqn with whom he completed 37 Operations on Halifaxes and was awarded the DFC
Pilot Officer Maurice Spivey DFM
*Signature Value : £25

Wireless Operator / Air Gunner with 158 Squadron.
Warrant Officer Dennis Slack
*Signature Value : £25

Upon completing his training on Wellingtons, Dennis was assigned to 158 Sqn as a Bomb Aimer on Halifaxes. In 1943 he was shot down whilst on a raid to Berlin and spent the rest of the war as a PoW in Stalag Luft IV b.


Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC (deceased)
*Signature Value : £40

Joining the RAF at the age of 16 in 1940, he did 2 full tours as a Rear Gunner with 9 Squadron and took part in nearly all the famous raids of Bomber Command. He finished in 1945 at 158 Squadron flying Halifaxes. 'I had just turned 18 when we went on a gunnery school course. After that six-week training, we usually went for a further three months training to an Operational Training Unit. It so happened that 9 Squadron had just converted from Wellingtons to Lancasters and they were 14 air gunners short on the squadron, so they posted us from gunnery school after six weeks' training straight to the squadron. 'When I got there, I was approached by a Flt Lt Stubbs, who said to me: 'You're my new gunner. We've got a gunner already but he's been flying Wellingtons and he doesn't want to be a rear gunner. He wants to go in the mid-upper turret. You'll be the rear gunner.' But, he said, on my first raid, the best thing for me to do would be to go on the mid-upper turret. 'That way you can see exactly what's going on,' he said. 'My first raid in Lancasters with 9 Squadron was to Dusseldorf on September 10th, 1942. Every time we went on a bombing raid, we had to do an air test first. We would test our guns, test the bomb sight, test the hydraulics, test the engines, and when you landed, if everything was OK, you told the engineers that everything was fine for the raid. As we landed, the armourers arrived with the bomb load. I still remember now, it was one 4,000 pounder - one huge, fat bomb - and 1,200 incendiaries. 'Our bomb aimer was an 'old sweat'. We used to call him 'The Old Boy'. He was 26. He said that with that bomb load we had, we were definitely going to the Happy Valley. When we returned to the mess, we got ready to go to the briefing. We were briefed and the curtain came down off the target and there it was - Dusseldorf. 'That's right,' said the bomb aimer to me, 'that's where we are going, Dusseldorf.' Most of our raids were on the Ruhr Valley and the reason why I am alive now is because - I don't know why - but I never went to Berlin. I wouldn't be talking to you now if I had been to Berlin. I can assure you. 'We put all our gear on. It took about half an hour for the air gunner to get dressed with all the clothing. I clambered into the mid-upper turret and off we went. As we crossed the Dutch coast, I could see we were about 1,400 or 1,500 feet over the coast. I could see a huge number of lights coming up. Far below us there was light flak, in beautiful colours, but it never touched us because we were a little too high. 'We crossed over Holland and the bomb aimer said: 'We are approaching the target, Skipper,' so I decided to swing my turret around and have a look. I was absolutely shocked by what I saw. I could not believe my eyes seeing what was in front of me. The flak, the guns, the lights, the search lights. It was incredible and I was really, really, really frightened. The plane was bouncing about. Then the bomb aimer said: 'Bomb doors open' and in we go straight and level. 'On my left I could see an aircraft on fire going down, and one below us I could see exploding. And I thought to myself: 'We're in for something here!'. I could not believe that we were going to fly through this huge explosion. But we went through it. Then the pilot was talking to the bomb aimer, and the bomb aimer said: 'We have missed the target, Skipper. We're going to have to go round again.' And I thought: 'Dear, oh dear, we've got to go all the way round, come back and go through all that again.' Which we did. And on the second run, we dropped our bombs. 'Bomb doors closed. On the way home. Flying back, there were problems with the oxygen, so the skipper – he was 21 and on his second tour, and old hand – took us down lower. We had to drop below 10,000 feet, and as we crossed the Dutch coast, the light flak opened up. It was absolutely hair-raising. There were hundreds and hundreds of these lights flashing past us but, strangely enough, not one of them hit us. 'When we got back, we landed and had a look at our aircraft. There were about 10 or 15 holes, two or three inches wide, across the fuselage, flak holes caused by shrapnel from the shells. We must have caught them on the Dutch coast. We were lucky but I've seen much worse. We went in for a briefing, had a coffee and went to bed. That was my first raid. Later, I found out, that our skipper, who had finished his tour, unfortunately got killed during training a couple of weeks later.'
Harry Irons died on 10th November 2020.
Warrant Officer Rex Statham
*Signature Value : £20

Flight Engineer, 158 Squadron.
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

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