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Roy Crane | Flight Lieutenant Roy Crane (deceased) Joining the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1940, Roy Crane was the deferred for nine months before call-up and flying training in the UK and Canada, receiving his Wings and Commission in December 1942. After operational training on Hurricanes, he joined 182 Typhoon Squadron in August 1943. Sorties included dive bombing and fighter escort duties. Transferred to 181 Squadron in April 1944 where worties with cannon and rockets included V1 and V2 sites as well as gun positions, petrol dumps, trains and marshalling yards, etc, in preparation for the invasion. In May this intensified with attacks on heavily defended radar sites along the French coast and shipping strikes. With the invasion a success, 181 Squadron was in the forefront of the Typhoons squadrons attacks on the German ground forces in Normandy, operating from forward airfields in France. On 2nd August 1944 his aircraft was hit by flak at low level and he became a POW. He had completed 71 operational sorties -- Whilst attacking tanks and motorised transport with rockets and cannon in the area of Falaise on 2nd August 1944, my aircraft was twice hit by 40mm flak at low level. I baled out and landed in a very hostile Waffen SS camp, lucky to be quickly rescued by two of the nearby German Air Force gun crew that had shot me down. Later that evening I was taken in an open German staff car by the Oberfeldwebel from the gun crew, a driver and an armed motorcycle escort in the direction of Falaise. We had only travelled a short distance, when about to pass a column of German tanks, they were attacked by six Typhoons firing rockets and cannon. They came round again and again, leaving terrible carnage. This was an ordeal that has to be experienced to be truly appreciated. They finally got me out of the Falaise pocket to Alencon, after which I was eventually taken after intensive interrogation at Oberursal, to Stalag Luft III at Sagan. |
Items Signed by Flight Lieutenant Roy Crane (deceased) |
| F/Lt J R Baldwin by Ivan Berryman. (C) Price : £540.00 | F/Lt (later Wing Commander) Baldwin was to become the highest-scoring Typhoon pilot of all with 15 confirmed victories, one shared, one probable and four damaged. He is depicted here downing a Bf.109 in Typhoon 1B, DN360 (PR-A) of 609 Sqn over Beach...... | |
| Airborne in JB1 by Ivan Berryman. (B) Price : £500.00 | Squadron Leader J R Baldwin gets airborne from a makeshift airfield in northern France flying one of his personalised Hawker Typhoons, JB-1. ...... | |
| Sledgehammer by Ivan Berryman. (C) Price : £580.00 | Regarded by some in the Air Ministry as a failed fighter, the mighty Hawker Typhoon was unrivalled as a ground attack aircraft, especially in the crucial months immediately prior to - and after - D-Day when squadrons of Typhoons operated in 'ca...... | |
| JBII - Hawker Typhoon of Wing Commander J R Baldwin by Ivan Berryman. (C) Price : £580.00 | Squadron Leader J R Baldwin passes above a section of Mulberry Harbour near Arromanches, late in June 1944, his personalised Hawker Typhoon bearing the codes JBII. ...... | |
| Clipped Signature - Roy Crane. Price : £40.00 | Roy Crane trained on Hurricanes before joining No.182 then No.181 Sqn flying the Typhoon on ground attack missions. After more than 70 sorties, his aircraft was shot down and he was captured in August 1944, remaining captive until the end of the wa...... |
| Clipped Signature - Pip Phillips. Price : £40.00 | Pip Phillips was a Typhoon pilot of No.182 Squadron. Clipped alongside the signature of Roy Crane as shown - Roy Crane trained on Hurricanes before joining No.182 then No.181 Sqn flying the Typhoon on ground attack missions. After more t...... | |
| Typhoon Country by Nicolas Trudgian. Price : £70.00 | A Typhoon of 181 Squadron flown by Flt Lt Roy Crane is shown attacking a German armoured column in th Falaise Gap in August 1944. Typhoons played a major role in destroying a large number of German armour and disrupting German movements during the b...... | |
| Typhoon Country by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) Price : £90.00 | A Typhoon of 181 Squadron flown by Flt Lt Roy Crane is shown attacking a German armoured column in th Falaise Gap in August 1944. Typhoons played a major role in destroying a large number of German armour and disrupting German movements during the ...... | |
| Typhoon Country by Nicolas Trudgian. (C) Price : £100.00 | A Typhoon of 181 Squadron flown by Flt Lt Roy Crane is shown attacking a German armoured column in th Falaise Gap in August 1944. Typhoons played a major role in destroying a large number of German armour and disrupting German movements during the ...... | |
| Normandy Sunrise by Gerald Coulson (AP) Price : £240.00 | Here, in the brightening morning sky, Typhoons are prepared for the first sortie of the day. One has already fired up its big, powerful engine, blowing up whirlwinds of Normandy dust, ground crew hover, ready to remove chocks prior to taxi and take-o...... |
| Normandy Sunrise by Gerald Coulson (B) Price : £250.00 | Here, in the brightening morning sky, Typhoons are prepared for the first sortie of the day. One has already fired up its big, powerful engine, blowing up whirlwinds of Normandy dust, ground crew hover, ready to remove chocks prior to taxi and take-o...... | |
| Normandy Sunrise by Gerald Coulson (C) SOLD OUT | Here, in the brightening morning sky, Typhoons are prepared for the first sortie of the day. One has already fired up its big, powerful engine, blowing up whirlwinds of Normandy dust, ground crew hover, ready to remove chocks prior to taxi and take-o...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Typhoons at Falaise by Nicolas Trudgian. SOLD OUT | It is August 1944, barely two months since the Allies landed their first troops on the beaches of Normandy. Already the German Panzer Divisions are in full retreat, and it is critical to halt them before they can regroup. Caught in the Gap at Falais...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Typhoons at Falaise by Nicolas Trudgian (AP) Price : £300.00 | It is August 1944, barely two months since the Allies landed their first troops on the beaches of Normandy. Already the German Panzer Divisions are in full retreat, and it is critical to halt them before they can regroup. Caught in the Gap at Falais...... | |
| Typhoons at Falaise by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) Price : £200.00 | It is August 1944, barely two months since the Allies landed their first troops on the beaches of Normandy. Already the German Panzer Divisions are in full retreat, and it is critical to halt them before they can regroup. Caught in the Gap at Falais...... |
| Typhoons at Falaise by Nicolas Trudgian. (XX) Price : £170.00 | It is August 1944, barely two months since the Allies landed their first troops on the beaches of Normandy. Already the German Panzer Divisions are in full retreat, and it is critical to halt them before they can regroup. Caught in the Gap at Falai...... | |
| Typhoon Scramble by Stephen Brown. (AP) SOLD OUT | RAF Hawker Typhoon Mk IBs of 609 Squadron embark on a ground attack mission, head for targets in Northern France. Once initial problems with the tail section were resolved the Typhoon proved to be extremely rugged and reliable and was ideally suited...... | NOT AVAILABLE |
| Winter Warriors by Ivan Berryman. (C) Price : £560.00 | The Winter of 1943-44 saw Hawker Typhoons operating from Tangmere, equipped with 500lb or 1000lb bombs against radar installations and V1 sites in northern France. Wing Commander J R Baldwin is depicted getting airborne with others of his squadron ...... | |
| Rocket Firing Typhoons at the Falaise Gap - Normandy 1944 by Frank Wootton. Price : £250.00 | Perhaps the most historically significant painting by Frank Wootton, painted onthe site of the battle just a few days after it took place....... |
Packs with at least one item featuring the signature of Flight Lieutenant Roy Crane (deceased) |
| Typhoon Aviation Print Pack. Pack Price : £500.00 Saving : £385 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Typhoon Scramble by Stephen Brown. Typhoons Over the Rhine by Nicolas Trudgian. Striking Back by Gerald Coulson. (B) Typhoons at Falaise by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) | |
Pack 669. Pack of two Falaise Typhoon prints by Robert Taylor and Nicolas Trudgian. Pack : SOLD OUT | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : HMS Hood Opens Fire Upon the Bismarck by Ivan Berryman. (SM) Bismarck Replies to HMS Hood by Ivan Berryman. (SM) | NOT AVAILABLE | |
Pack 673. Pack of two Hawker Typhoon prints by Robert Taylor and Nicolas Trudgian. Pack : SOLD OUT | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : HMS Hood Opens Fire Upon the Bismarck by Ivan Berryman. (SM) Bismarck Replies to HMS Hood by Ivan Berryman. (SM) | NOT AVAILABLE | |
Pack 1252. Hawker Typhoon Prints by Gerald Coulson and Nicolas Trudgian. Pack Price : £300.00 Saving : £250 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Striking Back by Gerald Coulson. (B) Typhoons at Falaise by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) | ||
Typhoon Aircraft Prints by Nicolas Trudgian. Pack Price : £190.00 Saving : £90 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Typhoons Over the Rhine by Nicolas Trudgian. Typhoon Country by Nicolas Trudgian. |
Sqn Ldr Stark DFC Signed Typhoon Aviation Art by Gerald Coulson. Pack Price : £320.00 Saving : £180 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Normandy Sunrise by Gerald Coulson (B) Striking Back by Gerald Coulson. | ||
Sqn Ldr Stark DFC Signed Normandy Typhoon Prints by Gerald Coulson. Pack Price : £380.00 Saving : £190 | Aviation Print Pack. ...... Titles in this pack : Normandy Sunrise by Gerald Coulson (AP) Striking Back by Gerald Coulson. (B) |
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