| Ramraiders by Richard Taylor. Within two days of the D-Day Normandy invasion, on 8 June 1944 Commander of US Air Forces in Europe, General Carl Spaatz, ordered a massive new offensive to halt the supply of oil to the enemy forces. As top priority his bombers would henceforth concentrate their attacks on Germanys oil refineries. Those in range of air bases in England would feel the full force of the Eighth Air Force, while the installations further south in Romania, Hungary, and southern Germany would be attacked by bombers of the Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy. To add to the pressure, RAF Bomber Command was coordinated to attack the refineries in the Ruhr by night. As the huge mass of American bombers streamed into the daylight skies, the Luftwaffe quickly changed tactics to counter the potentially devastating threat with a new specialist tactic - the Sturmgruppe. Flying their redesigned and heavily armoured Sturmbocke Fw190A-8 heavy fighters, pilots of the newly formed IV Sturm/JG3 Gruppe were urgently assigned the task of attacking the vast bomber streams in an effort to protect the refineries. Escorted into battle by Me 109s to hold off any escorting American fighters, the Fw190s tactic was to make en-masse lightning attacks on carefully selected targets. With the American bomber formations spread over miles of sky, the Sturmgruppe aimed for the less well defended centre of the stream, attacking from the rear with concentrated cannon fire. With the pilots of IV Sturm JG3 sworn on oath to press home their attacks at the closest possible range, even ramming their targets if necessary to ensure a kill, these desperate tactics were to inflict considerable damage to the allied bomber offensive during the final year of the war. Signed limited edition of 400 prints. Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm). Price £95.00 Signed by Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke, Leutnant Helmut Ballewski and Leutnant Kurt Wuppermann.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm). Price £135.00 Signed by Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke, Leutnant Helmut Ballewski and Leutnant Kurt Wuppermann.
Limited edition of 25 remarques. Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm). Price £265.00 Signed by Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke, Leutnant Helmut Ballewski and Leutnant Kurt Wuppermann.
Limited edition of 10 double remarques. Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm). Price £445.00 Signed by Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke, Leutnant Helmut Ballewski and Leutnant Kurt Wuppermann. ITEM CODE DHM2639 |
| The Royce Raid by Richard Taylor. In early April 1942, under the command of General Ralph Royce, and almost a week before the Doolittle raid – seven B-25C Mitchells and three B-17 Fortresses of the 5th Air Force, lifted off from their base in Australia and headed for the staging field at Del Monte on the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines. The painting shows one of 5th Air Force B-25C Mitchell taking off from the Del Monte on Sunday 12 April 1942, en-route to hit the harbor and shipping targets at Cebu. In the three days of Royces raids, the Mitchells flew over twenty sorties, sinking and seriously damaging three Japanese transport ships, and shooting down three enemy fighters. In a triumph of surprise aerial strikes, all seven B-25s and their crews returned safely to base. Signed limited edition of 400 prints. Image size 29 inches x 16 inches (74cm x 41cm). Price £95.00 Signed by Senior Master Sergeant Vernon Main.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Image size 29 inches x 16 inches (74cm x 41cm). Price £135.00 Signed by Senior Master Sergeant Vernon Main. ITEM CODE DHM2307 |
| Dual Victory by Richard Taylor. A spectacular dogfight over Eisenach on 24 March 1945 when the doughty Clyde East, returning from a recce over Schweinfurt and with photos already in the can, takes on a group of six Me109s. Flying his legendary Lil Margaret, having already dispatched one, he peels round to line up his second Me109 to add two more victories to his remarkable tally. Signed limited edition of 250 prints, with 1 signature. Print paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 57cm). Price £95.00 Signatories: Lt Col Clyde B East.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs, with 4 signatures. Print paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 57cm). Price £150.00 Signatories: Lt Col Clyde B East, Lt Col Ernest Bankey, Col Art Fiedler, and First Lt Clint White.
Fighter Pilots limited edition of 150 prints, with 4 signatures. Print paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 57cm). Price £120.00 Signatories: Lt Col Clyde B East, Lt Col Ernest Bankey, Col Art Fiedler, and First Lt Clint White. ITEM CODE DHM2604 |
| 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, Colonel Steve The Greek Pisanos, Brigadier General Les C Smith.
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, Colonel Steve The Greek Pisanos, Brigadier General Les C Smith.
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, Colonel Steve The Greek Pisanos, Brigadier General Les C Smith. ITEM CODE DHM2613 |
| Vital Force by Richard Taylor.
Signed limited edition of 400 prints. Paper size 34.5 inches x 23 inches (88cm x 58cm) Image size 28 inches x 15.5 inches (71cm x 40cm). Price £95.00 Signed by Flight Lieutenant Peter Hairs MBE, Flight Lieutenant Bill Green and Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 34.5 inches x 23 inches (88cm x 58cm) Image size 28 inches x 15.5 inches (71cm x 40cm). Price £135.00 Signed by Flight Lieutenant Peter Hairs MBE, Flight Lieutenant Bill Green, Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC, Wing Commander Bob Doe, DSO, DFC*, Wing Commander John Elkington and Tony Pickering AFC.
Limited edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 34.5 inches x 23 inches (88cm x 58cm) Image size 28 inches x 15.5 inches (71cm x 40cm). Price £265.00 Signed by Flight Lieutenant Peter Hairs MBE, Flight Lieutenant Bill Green, Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC, Wing Commander Bob Doe, DSO, DFC*, Wing Commander John Elkington and Tony Pickering AFC.
Limited edition of 10 double remarques. Paper size 34.5 inches x 23 inches (88cm x 58cm) Image size 28 inches x 15.5 inches (71cm x 40cm). Price £445.00 Signed by Flight Lieutenant Peter Hairs MBE, Flight Lieutenant Bill Green, Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC, Wing Commander Bob Doe, DSO, DFC*, Wing Commander John Elkington and Tony Pickering AFC. ITEM CODE DHM2712 |
| Arctic Hunters by Richard Taylor. Occupied by the Germans, by 1942 Norway had become vital to Hitlers war in the East. With the Russians threatening to over-run Finland and attack Norway, the pilots of JG5 were tasked to support German ground forces, and to escort the incessant Luftwaffe attacks on Arctic Convoys from Britain to the vital Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangel. With such unpredictably harsh weather it was a life or death battle fought under extreme conditions. For the pilots of JG5 - Eismeer, the Polar Sea Group, the sun never set during the long summer months, and due to constant fog and storms it was often impossible for pilots to return to base, often diverting to other airstrips. But their darkest moment came in December 1944 when their Kommodore, Heinrich Ehrler, one of the Luftwaffes most brilliant fighter leaders, was made a scapegoat following the sinking of the German battleship Tirpitz in a Norwegian fjord. Despite holding the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves and nominated for the Swords, he was convicted. High in the Arctic Circle a bitter war of attrition was fought in freezing, unforgiving conditions, the desperate conflict played out against a majestic, awe-inspiring backdrop of beautiful ice-clad mountains. Richard Taylors spectacular painting portrays the Me109s of 6./JG5 led by Oberleutnant Heinrich Ehrler, while based at Petsamo in Finland, as they soar high above the towering peaks of ice capped mountains glistening in the cold polar air, March 1943. Their dawn patrol keeps constant vigil along the glacial fjords of the Norways far-northern coastline, as the majestic vista gives the battle-hardened Me109 pilots a brief moment of tranquility far removed from the grim and bitter battles being fought below. Signed limited edition of 350 prints. Paper size 34 inches x 23 inches (86cm x 58cm). Price £95.00 Signed by Unteroffizier Gunther Kolb and Major Erich Rudorffer.
Polar Front edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 34 inches x 23 inches (86cm x 58cm). Price £150.00 Signed by Unteroffizier Gunther Kolb, Major Erich Rudorffer, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck and Hauptmann Karl-Fritz Schlossstein.
Polar Front proof edition of 60 prints. Paper size 34 inches x 23 inches (86cm x 58cm). Price £120.00 Signed by Unteroffizier Gunther Kolb, Major Erich Rudorffer, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck and Hauptmann Karl-Fritz Schlossstein.
Polar Front edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 34 inches x 23 inches (86cm x 58cm). Price £265.00 Signed by Unteroffizier Gunther Kolb, Major Erich Rudorffer, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck and Hauptmann Karl-Fritz Schlossstein.
Polar Front edition of 10 double remarques. Paper size 34 inches x 23 inches (86cm x 58cm). Price £445.00 Signed by Unteroffizier Gunther Kolb, Major Erich Rudorffer, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck and Hauptmann Karl-Fritz Schlossstein. ITEM CODE DHM1653 |
| Red Tail Escort by Richard Taylor. With the words of his Group CO ringing in his ears, a pilot of the 332nd Fighter Group returns to protect a crippled American B17 bomber after downing two Me109s in quick succession. Agonisingly, two more enemy fighters were left to escape but the pilot knew that under the strict leadership of Colonel Benjamin O Davis, his mission, and that if the other all-black pilots of the 332nd, was solely to protect the bombers. That iron discipline was to earn this famous unit the respect and admiration of hundreds of bomber crews, and to create a legend. Despite lingering racial prejudice and some opposition within the Air Force, President Roosevelt had ordered the USAAF to form an all-black fighter pilot unit, its crews to be trained at Tuskegee in Alabama. To the surprise of their critics, the Tuskegee Airmen were to prove their detractors spectacularly wrong from the first day they went into action in Italy in May 1943. Flying first with the Twelfth Air Force, then the Fifteenth, the four squadrons of the 332nd completed over 15,000 combat sorties, destroyed over 250 Luftwaffe aircraft in the air and on the ground, 950 railway trucks and locomotives, and even sunk a destroyer by machine gun fire! The Group was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation, their pilots decorated with over 1000 medals for gallantry. But above all, with the spinners and tails of their P-51 Mustangs brightly painted red, the Red Tails as they were affectionately known, became the only US Fighter Group that never lost a bomber in their care. The Tuskegee Red Tail pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group are a more than welcome sight as they close in to escort home a damaged B17 Fortress of the 483rd Bomb Group. Seen high over the Italian Alps during the summer of 1944 this poignant scene conveys precisely the story of the legendary Red Tails. Signed limited edition of 600 prints. Paper size 30 inches x 23.5 inches (76cm x 60cm). Price £95.00 Signed by Colonel Charles McGee, Lieutenant Colonel Leo R Gray, Lieutenant Colonel George E Hardy, Lieutenant Colonel William H Holloman III, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jefferson and Second Lieutenant Lowell Steward.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 30 inches x 23.5 inches (76cm x 60cm). Price £135.00 Signed by Colonel Charles McGee, Lieutenant Colonel Leo R Gray, Lieutenant Colonel George E Hardy, Lieutenant Colonel William H Holloman III, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jefferson and Second Lieutenant Lowell Steward.
Limited edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 30 inches x 23.5 inches (76cm x 60cm). Price £265.00 Signed by Colonel Charles McGee, Lieutenant Colonel Leo R Gray, Lieutenant Colonel George E Hardy, Lieutenant Colonel William H Holloman III, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jefferson and Second Lieutenant Lowell Steward.
Limited edition of 10 double remarques. Paper size 30 inches x 23.5 inches (76cm x 60cm). Price £445.00 Signed by Colonel Charles McGee, Lieutenant Colonel Leo R Gray, Lieutenant Colonel George E Hardy, Lieutenant Colonel William H Holloman III, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jefferson and Second Lieutenant Lowell Steward. ITEM CODE DHM2703 |
| Rover Patrol by Richard Taylor Operating from two airfields in northern Scotland were the Banff and Dallachy Strike Wings, their sole purpose was to attack all German shipping along the Norwegian coast, and they fought a bitter and dangerous campaign against Hitlers once mighty submarine fleet. Heavily defended by shore batteries, Flak ships with terrible firepower, and marauding Luftwaffe fighters, the Mosquitos and Beaufighters of Coastal Command came under intense fire during almost every sortie they flew. Powered by two big Merlin engines, fastest of these fighter-bombers was the sleek, all-wood highly manoeuvrable two seat Mosquito. Armed with four 20min cannon, four .303 Browning machine guns, and with eight 251b solid armourpiercing rockets, this graceful strike aircraft packed a lethal punch. Typically, sorties began in the dark, with pilots flying loose formation at 50 feet across the North Sea, to arrive over the target area at first light. Then, the ever-present barrage of defensive gunfire as pilots hurtled past sheer cliff faces, twisted and turned through narrow sounds, and dived in pursuit of their prey Suddenly, from the quiet peace of early dawn, the still air was shattered by the roar of Merlins, rockets, gunfire, and explosions, resounding off mountain sides in a deafening cacophony of battle. And within minutes they were gone, leaving a trail of smoke, twisted metal, and another nail in the coffin of the Third Reich. Signed by Flight Lieutenant Frank Hawthorne, Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Hilli Hilliard and Flying Officer Maurice Webb DFM. Signed limited edition of 400 prints. Paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 60cm). Price £115.00
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 60cm). Price £135.00 Signed by Flight Lieutenant Frank Hawthorne, Flight Lieutenant Aubrey Hilli Hilliard and Flying Officer Maurice Webb DFM. ITEM CODE DHM2616 |
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