| Dawn Strike by Richard Taylor. As the first rays of daylight spread their golden glow over the vast expanse of sky above the Russian Front, the menacing roar of heavily armed Bf110s of 6./ZGI shake the cold air around them as they prepare for a dawn strike against enemy ground targets deep inside Russian territory. Above them, their Me109 escorts, alert for danger, constantly scan the distant skies for any enemy intruders that may be on the prowl and waiting for them. It is high summer, 1942. On the ground the German summer offensive towards the Caucasus is now in full swing, and General Paulus with the 6th Army has begun the long advance that will eventually lead it to the gates of Stalingrad. The Luftwaffe is at full stretch, it too has a major part to play against stiffening Russian resistance. Signed limited edition of 450 prints. Paper size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm) - Image size 21 inches x 12.5 inches (53cm x 32cm). Price £80.00 Signed by Karl-Heinz Schoenemann.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm) - Image size 21 inches x 12.5 inches (53cm x 32cm). Price £135.00 Signed by Karl-Heinz Schoenemann.
Limited edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm) - Image size 21 inches x 12.5 inches (53cm x 32cm). Price £265.00 Signed by Karl-Heinz Schoenemann.
Limited edition of 10 double remarques. Paper size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm) - Image size 21 inches x 12.5 inches (53cm x 32cm). Price £445.00 Signed by Karl-Heinz Schoenemann.
ITEM CODE DHM1800 |
| Typhoons Outward Bound by Richard Taylor. In the months following D-Day, Hawkers hard-hitting, snub-nosed Typhoon struck terror into the German formations in Normandy, crack Panzer units wilted under the constant hail of rockets and bombs. Several times a day the Typhoon pilots would cross the Channel to run the gauntlet of flak and ground fire, and deliver their lethal cargo. The disaster befell the German Army during the third week in August 1944. For over two months, sixteen divisions of the Germany Army had battled to contain the huge tide of the Allied armies as they swept ashore in the weeks following D-Day. Overwhelmed by the size and determination of the invasion force, the Germans fell back amidst bitter fighting, contesting every town, every village, and every hedgerow. But there was one thing they could not fight against - devastating Allied air superiority - and leading the assault were the deadly ground-attack Typhoons of the RAF. Equipped with cannons and eight lethal rockets, the Typhoons simply cut the German Panzer Divisions to shreds, the burning, blasted, and obliterated hulks of tanks and vehicles lay srewn across an ever decreasing battlefield as the Allies fought to snare their enemy within the Falaise Pocket. And ensnare them they did. The only option for the Germans was to surrender or perish. Most choose to surrender, thousands and thousands of crack troops crushed by one of the deadliest air to ground attacks in history. The Typhoons lethal weaponry is clearly visible in Richard Taylors beautiful painting Typhoons Outward Bound. As another fine summer day begins, Typhoon Mk1bs of 247 Squadron are en-route to the Normandy battlefront, the first of several missions that day. Skimming at mast-top height, the Typhoons pass over two ancient steam drifters, conscripted into the wartime role of patrolling the Channel and, should the need arise, rescuing any downed aircrew in need of help. Signed limited edition of 400 prints. Paper size 27.5 inches x 23 inches (70cm x 58cm). Price £95.00 Signed by
Wing Commander John Elkington,
Warrant Officer John Abe Lincoln
and
Pilot Officer Rusty Townsend.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 27.5 inches x 23 inches (70cm x 58cm). Price £135.00 Signed by
Wing Commander John Elkington,
Warrant Officer John Abe Lincoln
,
Pilot Officer Rusty Townsend and
Flying Officer John Byrne.
Limited edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 27.5 inches x 23 inches (70cm x 58cm). Price £265.00 Signed by
Wing Commander John Elkington,
Warrant Officer John Abe Lincoln
,
Pilot Officer Rusty Townsend and
Flying Officer John Byrne.
Limited edition of 10 double remarques. Paper size 27.5 inches x 23 inches (70cm x 58cm). Price £445.00 Signed by
Wing Commander John Elkington,
Warrant Officer John Abe Lincoln
,
Pilot Officer Rusty Townsend and
Flying Officer John Byrne.
ITEM CODE DHM1765 |
| Tactical Support by Richard Taylor. With bright yellow spinners and distinctive twin-booms glinting in the June sunshine, two P-38 Lockheed Lightnings of the USAAFs 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group hurtle low over Pegasus Bridge as they race across the Normandy landscape shortly after the D-Day landings, June 1944. Flying from their base at Kings Cliffe in Cambridgeshire they have today been tasked to support the advancing allied forces; they will strafe and bomb the enemy lines, destroying enemy communications, armour and ground targets, causing as much chaos and disruption as they can. Dangerous work, these low-level missions, but tasks that the tough P-38 pilots relish. A few days before, the bridge below had witnessed a very different scene. The first action on D-Day happened here when, moments after midnight on the night of 5th - 6th June, three gliders swooped silently from the sky to land within yards of their target - this vital road bridge across the Caen canal. Major John Howard and men of the 6th British Airborne Division were to seize and hold this strategic point. After a brief but furious fire-fight the stunned German defenders were overwhelmed and the bridge captured. The Invasion of France had begun, and for the Germans it was the beginning of the end. Hitlers much vaunted armies had begun their slow bitter retreat to the end that was the burning hell of Berlin. When it came to hammering German ground forces in the days after D-Day, Lockheeds outstanding P-38 Lightning gained an awesome reputation. Richard Taylors evocative new painting recreates the scene over Pegasus Bridge shortly after D-Day as a pair of P-38 Lightnings thunder inland in support of the advancing allied armies. Below, signs of the recent action are still plainly visible as trucks and their exhausted drivers hasten back to the beach-head to collect reinforcements. Signed limited edition of 350 prints. Paper size 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm) - Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm). Price £110.00 Signed by Captain James Kunkle and Lieutenant Colonel William Willis.
Veterans Edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm) - Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm). Price £170.00 Signed by Captain James Kunkle, Lieutenant Colonel William Willis, Lieutenant Colonel William Pope, Staff Sergeant Peter B Boyle, Sergeant Titch Rayner and Sergeant William True.
Veterans Edition of 60 prints. Paper size 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm) - Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm). Price £135.00 Signed by Captain James Kunkle, Lieutenant Colonel William Willis, Lieutenant Colonel William Pope, Staff Sergeant Peter B Boyle, Sergeant Titch Rayner and Sergeant William True.
Veterans Edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm) - Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm). Price £285.00 Signed by Captain James Kunkle, Lieutenant Colonel William Willis, Lieutenant Colonel William Pope, Staff Sergeant Peter B Boyle, Sergeant Titch Rayner and Sergeant William True.
Veterans Edition of 10 double remarques. Paper size 33 inches x 23 inches (84cm x 58cm) - Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm). Price £465.00 Signed by Captain James Kunkle, Lieutenant Colonel William Willis, Lieutenant Colonel William Pope, Staff Sergeant Peter B Boyle, Sergeant Titch Rayner and Sergeant William True.
ITEM CODE DHM1745 |
| Dawn Till Dusk by Richard Taylor. Fighter Ace Johnnie Johnson leads MkIX Spitfires of his No.144 Canadian Wing back to their base at Ford after a long day of operations over Normandy shortly after D-Day. The wing flew constant fighter sweeps throughout the Normandy Invasions, before relocating to France on June 15th 1944. Signed limited edition of 350 prints Paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 60cm) Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm). Price £110.00 Signed by :
Wing Commander J F Stocky Edwards DFC* DFM
and
Wing Commander James Lindsay DFC.
Collectors edition of 70 prints Paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 60cm) Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm). Price £135.00 Signed by :
Wing Commander J F Stocky Edwards DFC* DFM,
Wing Commander James Lindsay DFC,
Lieutenant General Don Laubman DFC*
and
Squadron Leader Roy Wozniak DFC.
Remarque edition of 25 prints Paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 60cm) Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm) . Price £275.00 Signed by :
Wing Commander J F Stocky Edwards DFC* DFM,
Wing Commander James Lindsay DFC,
Lieutenant General Don Laubman DFC*
and
Squadron Leader Roy Wozniak DFC.
Double remarque edition of 10 prints Paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 60cm) Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm). Price £455.00 Signed by :
Wing Commander J F Stocky Edwards DFC* DFM,
Wing Commander James Lindsay DFC,
Lieutenant General Don Laubman DFC*
and
Squadron Leader Roy Wozniak DFC.
Tribute proof edition of 10 prints, supplied with an original pencil drawing featuring the mounted signatures. Paper size 30.5 inches x 23.5 inches (77cm x 60cm) Image size 24 inches x 16 inches (61cm x 41cm). Price £1095.00 Signed by :
Wing Commander J F Stocky Edwards DFC* DFM,
Wing Commander James Lindsay DFC,
Lieutenant General Don Laubman DFC*
and
Squadron Leader Roy Wozniak DFC
and features the mounted signatures of :
Air Vice Marshal Johnnie Johnson CB, CBE, DSO**, DFC* (deceased),
Flight Lieutenant Wilfred Banks DFC,
Flight Lieutenant Larry Robillard DFM CD,
Wing Commander Lorne Cameron DFC,
Group Captain Albert Houle DFC (deceased),
Squadron Leader Irving Kennedy DFC MD
and
Wing Commander Andy Mackenzie DFC CD.
ITEM CODE DHM1814 |
| Into the Fray by Richard Taylor. Squadron Leader Douglas Bader leads the Hurricanes of 242 Squadron in an aggressive diving attack upon a large force of Heinkel 111s approaching the Kent coast, whilst Spitfires from 66 Squadron tangle with the escorting Bf109s of JG52. It is September 1940, and the climax of the Battle of Britain. Throughout those critical months in 1940, the RAF engaged opposing pilots of the Luftwaffe time and time again and this atmospheric new painting depicts one such frantic engagement as one of the most legendary fighter Aces of the war, Douglas Bader leads his unit into battle. Signed limited edition of 350 prints. Paper size 35 inches x 21.5 inches (88cm x 54cm). Price £110.00 Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*
and
Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 35 inches x 21.5 inches (88cm x 54cm). Price £175.00 Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*,
Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC,
Wing Commander John Elkington,
Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC,
Air Commodore John Ellacombe CB DFC*
and
Tony Pickering AFC.
Collectors edition of 150 prints. Paper size 35 inches x 21.5 inches (88cm x 54cm). Price £150.00 Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*,
Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC,
Wing Commander John Elkington,
Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC,
Air Commodore John Ellacombe CB DFC*
and
Tony Pickering AFC.
Battle of Britain Tribute edition of 10 prints - each supplied with a unique pencil drawing. Paper size 35 inches x 21.5 inches (88cm x 54cm). Price £1395.00 Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*,
Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC,
Wing Commander John Elkington,
Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC,
Air Commodore John Ellacombe CB DFC*,
Tony Pickering AFC,
Squadron Leader Jocelyn G P Millard (deceased) (drawing)
Wing Commander Tom Neil DFC* AFC (drawing)
Squadron Leader Roy McGowan (drawing)
Squadron Leader Laurence Thorogood DFC AE (deceased) (drawing)
Wng Cmdr Ken Mackenzie (deceased) (drawing)
Warrant Officer David Denchfield (drawing)
Wing Commander Paddy Barthropp DFC AFC (deceased) (drawing)
Wing Commander Eric Barwell (deceased) (drawing)
Squadron Leader Basil Stapleton DFC (deceased) (drawing)
Squadron Leader Arthur Leigh DFC, DFM (deceased) (drawing)
Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader CBE, DSO*, DFC* (deceased) (drawing, matted)
Wing Commander George Grumpy Unwin, DSO, DFM* (deceased) (drawing, matted)
Group Captain Frank Carey (deceased) (drawing, matted)
Limited edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 35 inches x 21.5 inches (88cm x 54cm). Price £275.00 Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*,
Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC,
Wing Commander John Elkington,
Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC,
Air Commodore John Ellacombe CB DFC*
and
Tony Pickering AFC.
Limited edition of 10 double remarques. Paper size 35 inches x 21.5 inches (88cm x 54cm). Price £455.00 Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*,
Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC,
Wing Commander John Elkington,
Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC,
Air Commodore John Ellacombe CB DFC*
and
Tony Pickering AFC.
ITEM CODE DHM1914 |
| 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 (deceased) 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 (deceased), 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 £ Signed by Unteroffizier Gunther Kolb (deceased), 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 (deceased), 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 (deceased), Major Erich Rudorffer, Oberleutnant Walter Schuck and Hauptmann Karl-Fritz Schlossstein.
ITEM CODE DHM1653 |
| 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 |
| 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 (deceased), 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 (deceased), Col Art Fiedler, and First Lt Clint White.
ITEM CODE DHM2604 |
| Action This Day by Richard Taylor. 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. Signed limited edition of 350 prints. Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm). Price £110.00 Signed by :
Pilot Officer Maurice Spivey DFM,
Warrant Officer Rex Statham
and
Flight Lieutenant Fred Tunstall.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm) . Price £175.00 Signed by :
Pilot Officer Maurice Spivey DFM,
Warrant Officer Rex Statham,
Flight Lieutenant Fred Tunstall DFC,
Flight Lieutenant Tommy Coles DFC,
Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC,
Flight Lieutenant John Petrie-Andrews DFC DFM,
Warrant Officer Dennis Slack
and
Flight Lieutenant Alan Bryett.
Collectors edition of 70 prints. Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm). Price £150.00 Signed by :
Pilot Officer Maurice Spivey DFM,
Warrant Officer Rex Statham,
Flight Lieutenant Fred Tunstall DFC,
Flight Lieutenant Tommy Coles DFC,
Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC,
Flight Lieutenant John Petrie-Andrews DFC DFM,
Warrant Officer Dennis Slack
and
Flight Lieutenant Alan Bryett.
RAF Bomber Command Tribute edition of 10 prints (supplied with original pencil drawing). Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm). Price £1095.00 Signed by :
Pilot Officer Maurice Spivey DFM,
Warrant Officer Rex Statham,
Flight Lieutenant Fred Tunstall DFC,
Flight Lieutenant Tommy Coles DFC,
Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC,
Flight Lieutenant John Petrie-Andrews DFC DFM,
Warrant Officer Dennis Slack,
Flight Lieutenant Alan Bryett,
and includes the mounted signatures of :
Air Vice Marshall Donald Bennett (deceased),
Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC OM DSO** DFC* (deceased),
Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges KCB CBE DSO DFC* (deceased),
Group Captain J B Tait DSO*** DFC* ADC (deceased)
and
Air Chief Marshal Sir Augustus Walker GCB CBE DSO DFC AFC (deceased).
Limited edition of 25 remarques. Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm). Price £265.00 Signed by :
Pilot Officer Maurice Spivey DFM,
Warrant Officer Rex Statham,
Flight Lieutenant Fred Tunstall DFC,
Flight Lieutenant Tommy Coles DFC,
Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC,
Flight Lieutenant John Petrie-Andrews DFC DFM,
Warrant Officer Dennis Slack
and
Flight Lieutenant Alan Bryett.
Limited edition of 10 double remarques. Paper size 34.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 64cm). Price £445.00 Signed by :
Pilot Officer Maurice Spivey DFM,
Warrant Officer Rex Statham,
Flight Lieutenant Fred Tunstall DFC,
Flight Lieutenant Tommy Coles DFC,
Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC,
Flight Lieutenant John Petrie-Andrews DFC DFM,
Warrant Officer Dennis Slack
and
Flight Lieutenant Alan Bryett.
ITEM CODE DHM1902 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 £ Signed by Flight Lieutenant Peter Hairs MBE, Flight Lieutenant Bill Green, Group Captain Byron Duckenfield AFC, Wing Commander Bob Doe, DSO, DFC* (deceased), 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* (deceased), 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* (deceased), Wing Commander John Elkington and Tony Pickering AFC.
ITEM CODE DHM2712 |
| Holding the Tide by Richard Taylor. On 7 August 1942, just eight months after the dramatic events at Pearl Harbor, the United States First Marine Division stormed ashore on the island of Guadalcanal. It was the opening gambit of the land war in the Pacific. The painting depicts Captain Joe Foss as he leads the F4F Wildcats of VMF-121 back to Henderson Field after a day of desperate fighting against the Japanese in the skies over the steaming jungles of Guadalcanal in November 1942 - it would be another three months before the island was finally secured during which time Joe Foss would achieve an astonishing 26 victories to become the first American pilot to equal WW1 Ace Eddie Rickenbackers score. Limited edition of 350 prints Paper size 32 inches x 24 inches (82cm x 61cm). Price £110.00 Signed by :
Commander Leslie Fortner USMC
and
Captain Stanley Swede Vejtasa USN.
Artist Proof edition of 25 prints Paper size 32 inches x 24 inches (82cm x 61cm). Price £150.00 Signed by :
Commander Leslie Fortner USMC ,
Captain Stanley Swede Vejtasa USN,
Commander Dean Laird USN
and
Colonel James E Swett USMC MOH (deceased).
Collectors edition of 70 prints Paper size 32 inches x 24 inches (82cm x 61cm). Price £125.00 Signed by :
Commander Leslie Fortner USMC ,
Captain Stanley Swede Vejtasa USN,
Commander Dean Laird USN
and
Colonel James E Swett USMC MOH (deceased).
Medal of Honor Tribute edition of 10 prints. Paper size 32 inches x 24 inches (82cm x 61cm). Price £445.00 Signed by :
Commander Leslie Fortner USMC ,
Captain Stanley Swede Vejtasa USN,
Commander Dean Laird USN
and
Colonel James E Swett USMC MOH (deceased)
and featuring the matted original signatures of :
Jeff de Blanc,
Brigadier General Joseph J Foss (deceased),
Bob Galer
and
Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth A Walsh.
Limited edition of 25 remarques Paper size 32 inches x 24 inches (82cm x 61cm). Price £265.00 Signed by :
Commander Leslie Fortner USMC ,
Captain Stanley Swede Vejtasa USN,
Commander Dean Laird USN
and
Colonel James E Swett USMC MOH (deceased).
Limited edition of 10 double remarques Paper size 32 inches x 24 inches (82cm x 61cm). Price £445.00 Signed by :
Commander Leslie Fortner USMC ,
Captain Stanley Swede Vejtasa USN,
Commander Dean Laird USN
and
Colonel James E Swett USMC MOH (deceased).
ITEM CODE DHM1887 |
| 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 |
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Holding the Tide by Richard Taylor. (RMB)
On 7 August 1942, just eight months after the dramatic events at Pearl Harbor, the United States First Marine Division stormed ashore on the island of Guadalcanal. It was the opening gambit of the land war in the Pacific. The painting depicts Captain Joe Foss as he leads the F4F Wildcats of VMF-121 back to Henderson Field after a day of desperate fighting against the Japanese in the skies over the steaming jungles of Guadalcanal in November 1942 - it would be another three months before the island was finally secured during which time Joe Foss would achieve an astonishing 26 victories to become the first American pilot to equal WW1 Ace Eddie Rickenbackers score.
Limited edition of 10 double remarques Paper size 32 inches x 24 inches (82cm x 61cm). Price £445.00 Signed by :
Commander Leslie Fortner USMC ,
Captain Stanley Swede Vejtasa USN,
Commander Dean Laird USN
and
Colonel James E Swett USMC MOH (deceased).
ITEM CODE DHM1887RMB
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