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Pilot Signed Prints : Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin
'Bud' Mahurin gained a reputation as one of the USAAF's most colourful fighter Aces. Arriving in the European theatre, flying with the 56th Fighter Group, he indulged in seventeen months of heavy aerial combat, during which he suffered one crash and was forced to bail out three times, finally landing behind enemy lines. Undaunted he made contact with the French Resistance, and found his way back to England. He had by this time shot down 21 German aircraft. He then transferred to the South west Pacific where he added a Japanese aircraft to his score. 'Bud' Mahurin commanded the 4th Fighter Interceptor Group in Korea where he added 3.5 MiG-15s to his tally before being shot down, for the last time, to spend a gruelling sixteen months as a POW.
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| P-51 Mustang by Nicolas Trudgian. Part of a small print series of six American WW2 aircraft, signed by some of the great American pilots, some no longer with us. Cranston Fine Arts have purchased the last remaining stocks of this aviation series. Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (Anderson) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £51.00 Signed by Colonel C E Bud Anderson and the artist.  Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Save £5 on selected prints - Was £56
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Anderson) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £60.00 Signed by Colonel C E Bud Anderson and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (East) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £60.00 Signed by Colonel Clyde B East and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Blakeslee) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £60.00 Signed by Colonel Don Blakeslee (deceased) and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Green) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £60.00 Signed by Major Herky Green (deceased) and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Mahurin) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £60.00 Signed by Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Olds) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £60.00 Signed by Brigadier General Robin Olds and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Mahurin / Blakeslee) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £70.00 Signed by Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin, Colonel Don Blakeslee and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Brooks) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £60.00 Signed by Captain Jim Brooks and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (East) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £51.00 Signed by Colonel Clyde B East and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Save £5 on selected prints - Was £56
Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (Blakeslee) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £51.00 Signed by Colonel Don Blakeslee (deceased) and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Save £5 on selected prints - Was £56
Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (Green) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £51.00 Signed by Major Herky Green (deceased) and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Save £5 on selected prints - Was £56
Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (Mahurin) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £51.00 Signed by Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased) and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Save £5 on selected prints - Was £56
Signed limited edition of 250 prints. (Olds) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £51.00 Signed by Brigadier General Robin Olds (deceased) and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
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Signed limited edition of 250 prints. (Mahurin / Blakeslee) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £55.00 Signed by Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased), Colonel Don Blakeslee (deceased) and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Signed limited edition of 250 prints. (Brooks) Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm). Price £56.00 Signed by Captain Jim Brooks and the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
ITEM CODE DHM2652 |
| The Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. The 56th Fighter Group was led by some of Americas greatest fighter leaders of World War II and was home to many of its leading fighter Aces. Under successive commanders Hub Zemke, Robert Landry and David Schilling, the 56th destroyed more enemy aircraft in combat than any other fighter group in the Eighth Air Force. Arriving in England in January 1943 under the command of Colonel Hub Zemke, a master tactician and fearless leader, the 56th quickly emerged as an outstanding fighting unit. The only Eighth Air Force Group to fly P-47 Thunderbolts throughout the war, the 56th spawned more fighter Aces than any other USAAF group - legends such as Gabby Gabreski, Robert Johnson and the colourful Ace Walker Bud Mahurin. Under Hub Zemkes mercurial leadership they became known and feared as Zemkes Wolfpack. On 26 November, 1943, the P-47s of the 56th Fighter Group were tasked to escort B-24 Liberators of the 392nd Bomb Group on a dangerous mission to attack the heavily defended industrial and dockyard facilities in the German port of Bremen. Zemke knew the Luftwaffe would be waiting for them as they approached the target, and they were – in force! It was to become a day of high drama. With the Luftwaffe throwing all the fighters they could muster at the American heavy bombers, a massive aerial battle ensued. In the running dogfights high over Bremen, the Wolfpack claimed their most successful action of the war with 23 confirmed kills, 3 probables, and 9 damaged, creating an all-time record in the European Theatre. The 392nds B-24 Liberators could not have been in safer hands on that eventful day. Signed limited edition of 400 prints. Paper size 35 inches x 26.5 inches (88cm x 66cm) - Image size 24.5 inches x 22 inches (62cm x 56cm). Price £200.00 Signed by
Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased),
Brigadier General Leslie C Smith and
Brigadier General Lyle Adrianse.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 35 inches x 26.5 inches (88cm x 66cm) - Image size 24.5 inches x 22 inches (62cm x 56cm). Price £415.00 Signed by
Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased),
Brigadier General Leslie C Smith,
Brigadier General Lyle Adrianse,
Captain Walter Groce,
Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Whitley,
Colonel Harold Bunny Comstock,
Major Michael B Gladych,
Captain Shirley Ulch,
Lieutenant John Bradshaw - Companion Print,
Colonel Billy Gene Edens - Companion Print,
Chief Warrant Officer Russell Kyler - Companion Print and
Colonel Robert J Shorty Rankin - Companion Print.
Collectors edition of 350 prints. Paper size 35 inches x 26.5 inches (88cm x 66cm) - Image size 24.5 inches x 22 inches (62cm x 56cm). Price £275.00 Signed by
Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased),
Brigadier General Leslie C Smith,
Brigadier General Lyle Adrianse,
Captain Walter Groce,
Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Whitley,
Lieutenant John Bradshaw - Companion Print,
Colonel Billy Gene Edens - Companion Print,
Chief Warrant Officer Russell Kyler - Companion Print and
Colonel Robert J Shorty Rankin - Companion Print.
Wolfpack Tribute Proof edition of 50 prints. Paper size 35 inches x 26.5 inches (88cm x 66cm) - Image size 24.5 inches x 22 inches (62cm x 56cm). Price £ Signed by
Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased),
Brigadier General Leslie C Smith,
Brigadier General Lyle Adrianse,
Captain Walter Groce,
Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Whitley,
Colonel Harold Bunny Comstock,
Major Michael B Gladych,
Captain Shirley Ulch,
Lieutenant John Bradshaw - Companion Print,
Colonel Billy Gene Edens - Companion Print,
Chief Warrant Officer Russell Kyler - Companion Print,
Colonel Robert J Shorty Rankin - Companion Print,
Colonel Gordon Batdorf - Companion Print,
Colonel Robert Winters - Companion Print,
Colonel Gabby Gabreski (deceased) - (matted) Companion Print,
Lt Col Robert S Johnson (deceased) - (matted) Companion Print and
Colonel Hub Zemke (deceased) - (matted) Companion Print.
ITEM CODE DHM1726 |
| Days of Thunder by Richard Taylor. Duxford became home to the 78th Fighter Group when they arrived in England with their P-47B Thunderbolts in 1943. The objective of the American fighter units was to gain air superiority over the Luftwaffe in support of their daylight bombing campaign. By 1944 they achieved their objective. Richard Taylor commemorates the valiant contribution of the 78th Fighter Group with a fine new rendition showing P-47D Thunderbolts departing Duxford en route for the north coast of France, and a low-level strafing mission. It is the spring of 1944, and with the Normandy invasion just days away, the Thunderbolts are already painted with invasion markings. Signed limited edition of 250 prints, with 1 signature. Print paper size 30.5 inches x 22 inches (77cm x 56cm). Price £95.00 Signatories: Colonel Robert J Shorty Rankin.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs, with 4 signatures. Print paper size 30.5 inches x 22 inches (77cm x 56cm). Price £150.00 Signatories: Colonel Robert J Shorty Rankin, Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased), Colonel Steve The Greek Pisanos, First Lieutenant Samuel Buzzard Lutz.
Fighter Aces limited edition of 150 prints, with 4 signatures. Print paper size 30.5 inches x 22 inches (77cm x 56cm). Price £120.00 Signatories: Colonel Robert J Shorty Rankin, Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased), Colonel Steve The Greek Pisanos, First Lieutenant Samuel Buzzard Lutz.
Limited edition of 25 remarques, with 4 signatures. Print paper size 30.5 inches x 22 inches (77cm x 56cm). Price £265.00 Signatories: Colonel Robert J Shorty Rankin, Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased), Colonel Steve The Greek Pisanos, First Lieutenant Samuel Buzzard Lutz.
ITEM CODE DHM2613 |
| Zemkes Wolfpack by Robert Taylor. Hub Zemke was a fighter pilot and commander who led from the front. A great tactician too, it was in no small measure due to the air combat tactics introduced to the 56th Fighter Group by its mercurial leader that by the end of WW2 it had become the top-scoring Fighter Group in the USAF. This highly successful unit spawned some of the top fighter aces in the European theatre : Gabby Gabreski with 34.5 victories, Robert Johnson with 28 victories, and the colourful Ace, Walker Bud Mahurin who shot down 21 German aircraft. High over Germany at the extremity of its range, the P-47 of Hub Zemke is seen leading his pilots in to defend a stricken B-17 against the persistent attacks of marauding Fw190s. Already damaged, the B-17 has dropped from the relative safety of the formation, and protection from the P-47s is now its only chance of survival. Signed limited edition of 1250 prints. Paper size 33 inches x 24 inches (84cm x 61cm). Price £ Signed by :
Colonel Gabby Gabreski (deceased),
Robert Johnson (deceased),
Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased)
and
Colonel Hub Zemke (deceased).
ITEM CODE RST0082 |
| Opening Sky by Robert Taylor. With the morning sun glinting on their fuselages, P-51 Mustangs of the 78th Fighter Group cross the Dutch coastline far below, as they head back towards their base at Duxford, England at the end of a long sweep east of the Rhine crossing, Spring 1945. The final months of the war in Europe lie ahead, and for the P-51 pilots victory is within sight. Finally, after years of toil, the sky was theirs. Limited edition of 300 prints Paper size 27.5 inches x 17 inches (70cm x 43cm) Image size 21 inches x 8 inches (53cm x 20cm). Price £125.00 Signed by :
Colonel C E Bud Anderson ,
Lieutenant Colonel Clyde B East
and
Colonel Arthur C Fiedler.
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Limited edition of 75 artist proofs Overall matted size 31.5 inches x 19 inches (80cm x 48cm) Image size 21 inches x 8 inches (53cm x 20cm). Price £450.00 Signed by :
Colonel C E Bud Anderson ,
Lieutenant Colonel Clyde B East,
Colonel Arthur C Fiedler,
Major Bill Allen,
Captain Jim Brooks,
Captain Clinton DeWitt Burdick,
Captain Wayne L Coleman,
First Lieutenant Raymond T Conlin,
Colonel Donald Cummings ,
Maj Urban L Drew USAF,
Colonel Bob Goebel,
Lieutenant Colonel Robert A Karr,
Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased),
Colonel Steve Pisanos,
First Lieutenant John Skara,
Second Lieutenant Lowell Steward,
First Lieutenant Clint White
and features the matted signatures of :
Russ Berg,
Colonel Don Blakeslee (deceased),
Gen. Charles R. Bond (deceased),
Colonel Gerald Brown (deceased),
Kit Carson,
Colonel Gabby Gabreski (deceased),
Major Herky Green (deceased),
Colonel Tex Hill (deceased),
Lt Colonel Frank D Hurlbut,
Colonel Jack M Ilfrey (deceased),
Lt Col Robert S Johnson (deceased),
Major General Carroll W McColpin,
Brigadier General Robin Olds (deceased),
Major Richard Bud Peterson
and
Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth A Walsh
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P-51 Tribute edition of 175 prints Paper size 27.5 inches x 17 inches (70cm x 43cm) Image size 21 inches x 8 inches (53cm x 20cm). Price £195.00 Signed by :
Colonel C E Bud Anderson ,
Lieutenant Colonel Clyde B East,
Colonel Arthur C Fiedler,
Major Bill Allen,
Captain Jim Brooks,
Captain Clinton DeWitt Burdick,
Captain Wayne L Coleman,
First Lieutenant Raymond T Conlin,
Colonel Donald Cummings ,
Maj Urban L Drew USAF,
Colonel Bob Goebel,
Lieutenant Colonel Robert A Karr,
Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased),
Colonel Steve Pisanos,
First Lieutenant John Skara,
Second Lieutenant Lowell Steward
and
First Lieutenant Clint White
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ITEM CODE DHM1845 |
| Running the Gauntlet by Robert Taylor. Though some 1400 of Germanys remarkable Me262 jet aircraft were built, fewer than 300 ever saw action during its short 10 month combat career, the 550 mph fighter-bomber arriving in service too late to make any impression on the course of the war. Most famous of all Me262 units was Jagdverband 44, commanded by General Adolf Galland. Instructed by Hitler to set up a small defensive fighter unit to make the most of the new Me262, Gallands JV44 attracted other top-scoring pilots, including top aces Macky Steinhoff and Walter Krupinski, and the unit soon became dubbed Gallands Squadron of Experts. Though doing their best to repel daylight attacks on jet production plants in Southern Germany, JV44 were fighting a losing battle. During a raid on 9 April 1945 the unit lost nine aircraft – a pattern that was to continue. Also, American fighter pilots, unable to catch the 262 in the air, found success taking the jets out as they took off or landed, catching them while at their most vulnerable. With the Allies driving deeper and deeper into Germany, production of aircraft, spares, fuel, and ammunition, steadily dried up. The point came when JV44, Gallands now legendary Squadron of Experts, finally ground to a halt. Running the Gauntlet shows Me262s of JV44 returning to base in southern Germany, having come under attack from P-51 Mustangs of the 353rd Fighter Group. Almost out of fuel and ammunition, the Me262s have little option but to complete their landing sequence, hoping fervently they are not bounced by American fighters loitering in the area. They are out of luck on this occasion, and although Galland has organised a unit flying Focke-Wulf Fw190D-9s to provide air cover in the area of the airfield, they too have been caught by the 353rd Fighter Groups surprise attack. At the relatively slow speed required on final approach, the Me262s handling is sluggish and the pilot is having enough trouble without the attentions of a bunch of P-51 pilots. At this point the JV44 Me262 remains unscathed, and with the arrival of the Fw190s, there is the possibility this particular jet pilot will survive the day. Aces Edition : signed limited edition of 400 prints. Paper size 33 inches x 25 inches (83cm x 64cm). Price £200.00 Signed by Major General Donald Strait, Lieutenant Colonel Clyde B East, Leutnant Norbert Hannig and Oberleutnant Walter Schuck.
War in Europe Edition - signed limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 33 inches x 25 inches (83cm x 64cm). Price £ Signed by Major General Donald Strait, Lieutenant Colonel Clyde B East, Leutnant Norbert Hannig, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck, Colonel Donald Cummings , Brigadier General Robin Olds (deceased), Major Erich Rudorffer and Leutnant Alfred Ambs (deceased).
War in Europe Edition - signed limited edition of 200 prints. Paper size 33 inches x 25 inches (83cm x 64cm). Price £275.00 Signed by Major General Donald Strait, Lieutenant Colonel Clyde B East, Leutnant Norbert Hannig, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck, Colonel Donald Cummings , Brigadier General Robin Olds (deceased), Major Erich Rudorffer and Leutnant Alfred Ambs (deceased).
War in Europe Edition - signed limited edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 33 inches x 25 inches (83cm x 64cm). Price £ Signed by Major General Donald Strait, Lieutenant Colonel Clyde B East, Leutnant Norbert Hannig, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck, Colonel Donald Cummings , Brigadier General Robin Olds (deceased), Major Erich Rudorffer and Leutnant Alfred Ambs (deceased).
Generals Edition : signed limited edition of 120 prints. Paper size 33 inches x 25 inches (83cm x 64cm). Price £ Signed by Major General Donald Strait, Lieutenant Colonel Clyde B East, Leutnant Norbert Hannig, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck, Colonel Donald Cummings , Brigadier General Robin Olds (deceased), Major Erich Rudorffer, Leutnant Alfred Ambs (deceased), Captain Jim Brooks, Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased), General Adolf Galland (deceased) and Feldwebel Ernest Giefing.
Portfolio Proofs : signed limited edition of 25 prints, supplied with companion drawing. Paper size 33 inches x 25 inches (83cm x 64cm). Price £ Signed by Major General Donald Strait, Lieutenant Colonel Clyde B East, Leutnant Norbert Hannig, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck, Colonel Donald Cummings , Brigadier General Robin Olds (deceased), Major Erich Rudorffer, Leutnant Alfred Ambs (deceased), Captain Jim Brooks, Colonel Walker Bud Mahurin (deceased), General Adolf Galland (deceased), Feldwebel Ernest Giefing, Major Herky Green (deceased), General Johannes Steinhoff (deceased) (matted) - Companion Print and General Walter Krupinski (deceased) (matted) - Companion Print.
ITEM CODE DHM1751 |
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