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| Attack on the Sorpe by Ivan Berryman. (P)
Of the five Lancasters that formed the Second Wave of Operation Chastise, just one aircraft made it to the target, the Sorpe Dam, on the night of 16th/17th May 1943. American pilot Joe McCarthy had been forced to switch to the reserve aircraft due to technical difficulties and subsequently took off slightly later than his less fortunate comrades, all of whom fell either to German flak or to mishaps on their perilous journey. Upon arrival, McCarthy found the view of the dam itself to be unobscured, although mist in the surrounding valleys made it difficult to gauge his approach. As this was not a masonry dam, a different tactic was employed to the Möhne and Eder which involved flying along the length of the dam and dropping the Upkeep bomb, unspun, directly onto it. Their task was made all the more difficult by the fact that their approach necessitated McCarthy bringing AJ-T low over the hilltop village of Langsheid whose Church spire occupied the very point at which the aircraft had to pass to get a good run upon the dam. Undaunted and with great skill, ED825(G) made its run and released the bomb onto the dam, unassisted by the spotlight altimeter device that had proved so useful at the Möhne and Eder as AJ-T had not been fitted with this aid. Nevertheless, the Upkeep struck the dam and exploded as planned, sadly with little effect. McCarthy and his brave crew returned safely to Scampton, their landing made slightly difficult by a tyre that had been damaged by light flak on the return journey. The Sorpe was attacked again in the small hours of the morning when Flight Sergeant Ken Brown's aircraft, AJ-F of the Third Wave arrived, once more striking the dam successfully, but again without breaching it.
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| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | ORIGINAL PAINTING | Original painting, oil on canvas by Ivan Berryman.
SOLD (September 2010) | Size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | | SOLD OUT | NOT AVAILABLE |
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| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | PRINT | Large size signed limited edition of 20 prints. | Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | | £145.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ARTIST PROOF | Large size limited edition of 20 artist proofs. | Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | | £190.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ARTIST PROOF | Limited edition of 20 artist proofs. | Image size 16 inches x 11 inches (41cm x 28cm) | Johnson, George L + Artist : Ivan Berryman
Signature(s) value alone : £45 | £20 Off! | Now : £120.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 30 prints. | Image size 16 inches x 11 inches (41cm x 28cm) | Johnson, George L + Artist : Ivan Berryman
Signature(s) value alone : £45 | £20 Off! | Now : £95.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Presentation edition of 2 prints. | Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | | £440.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Small Presentation edition of 2 prints. | Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm) | Sutherland, Frederick E (clipped) McDonald, Grant S (clipped) Johnson, George L (clipped) + Artist : Ivan Berryman
Signature(s) value alone : £135 | | £370.00 | VIEW EDITION... | GICLEE CANVAS | Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. | Size 36 inches x 26 inches (91cm x 66cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman on separate certificate | £100 Off! | Now : £500.00 | VIEW EDITION... | GICLEE CANVAS | Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. | Size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman on separate certificate | £100 Off! | Now : £400.00 | VIEW EDITION... | POSTCARD | Collector's Postcard - Restricted Initial Print Run of 100 cards. | Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm) | none | | £2.70 | VIEW EDITION... |
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Crew of T for Tommy :
Pilot : Flt Lt J C McCarthy Flight Engineer : Sgt W G Radcliffe Navigator : Flt Sgt D A MacLean Wireless Operator : Flt Sgt L Eaton Bomb Aimer : Sgt G L Johnson Front Gunner : Sgt R Batson Rear Gunner : Flg Off D Rodger.
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The Aircraft : | Name | Info | Lancaster | The Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' "Operation Gomorrah" in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992. |
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