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Brian Bateman Original Aviation Drawings
Aviation Art Prints  Aviation Artists Brian Bateman  Original Drawings |
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Victory for Red Section by Brian Bateman. (P) Steve Pisanos, flying P-47 QP-D in Red Section, shoots down a German Me-109 near Sittard, Gemany. Here we see the 109 trailing smoke and banking down as Steve has hits near the engine and cockpit of the enemy combatant. Claim one Me-109. |
No.615 Sqn Hurricane over Burma by Brian Bateman. (P) Hurricane Mk.IIc of 615 Squadron during late 1942 on a sortie over the Burmese jungle. |
Erich Rudorffer - Eastern Front Ace by Brian Bateman. (P) Major Erich Rudorffer claims one of three Airacobra's shot down on 10th October 1944 as he claims seven victories in a single day in his Fw190 of JG54. One of the greatest Aces of World War Two, Rudorffer scored a total of 222 victories including over 75 on the western front, making him the 7th highest scoring Ace of all time. |
Major Urban 'Ben' Drew - First Victory by Brian Bateman. (P) Urban Ben Drew claims his first victory in his Mustang as he makes a strafing run of a Luftwaffe JU-52 transport at Toussus-Le-Noble in France in mid 1944. |
Walter Schuck by Brian Bateman. (P) Walter Schuck of JG5 returns after a successful sortie. Schuck finished the war with 206 victories. |
Otto Kittel by Brian Bateman. (P) A tribute to Otto Kittel - the fourth highest scoring flying Ace of all time with 267 victories until his death in February 1945, two months before the end of the war. |
Greek Victory by Brian Bateman. (P) Steve Pisanos, flying P-47 QP-D, is depicted pulling away swiftly after a victory over an FW-190 in late December 1944 over northern Germany. This was Steve's fourth victory, one victory short on an ace, which would come later in the P-51. |
Urban 'Ben' Drew - Aerial Hat-Trick by Brian Bateman. (P) On 11th September 1944, Urban Ben Drew claimed his third aerial victory claiming another Me109 in his P-51 Mustang. |
Burma - Arrival of 615 Squadron by Brian Bateman. (P) A Mk.II Hurricane of No.615 Sqn passes over a downed Japanese Zero fighter in the jungles of Burma. |
Greek 'Fire by Brian Bateman. (P) Spiros 'Steve the Greek' Pisanos in his Mk.Vb Spitfire EN783 XR-K during his time with No.71 Sqn RAF, one of three American Eagle squadrons within the Royal Air Force. |
Urban 'Ben' Drew - Good Hunting by Brian Bateman. (P) On August 25th 1944, Ben Drew found himself locked in a stalemate with the Bf109 of an experienced Luftwaffe pilot. Circling each other to try and force an advantage, the two pilots spiraled towards the ground until the German finally broke away from the Lufberry circle to escape the guns of the Mustang. With 5 of his 6 guns jammed from the extreme forces encountered while circling, Ben Drew chased his opponent, raking the fuselage with the one remaining gun. The enemy aircraft started to smoke then nosed into the ground at full throttle. As he flew over the resulting fireball, Ben remembered how his mother always ended her letters - good hunting, son.. |
Byron Duckenfield by Brian Bateman. (P) A No.501 Sqn Hurricane pilot during the Battle of Britain, Byron Duckenfield later took command of No.615 Squadron, taking them to Burma where his Hurricane was shot down. Once captured by the Japanese, he spent more than two years in Rangoon jail. |
Victory for White Two by Brian Bateman. (P) May 21,1943. Steve Pisanos flying P-47 QP-D in White Section, on an escort mission to Ghent, shoots down an FW-190 near Belgium. Flying wing to Captain Andrews, Pisanos took over once Andrews temporarily spun out of control pursuing the 190, which Steve hastily finished off. Depicted is the moment before Steve breaks off for home and waiting for the pilot to bail out, which he did not at this point. |
Jet Ace by Brian Bateman. (P) Walter Schuck claims one of two P-51 Mustangs shot down as his first two victories in his new Me262 jet fighter. Flying with JG7, Walter Schuck claimed his first two victories in the jet on 24th March 1945, and eventually went on to claim eight jet victories, and over 200 enemy aircraft in total. |
A Pickle for Pickering by Brian Bateman. (P) September 11th 1940. The 501 Squadron Hurricane of Tony Pickering dives through a formation of 300 German bombers as they head for London. Smoke begins to pour from his Hurricane as a German gunner hits his oil sump, forcing Tony to make a hasty escape from the doomed aircraft. |
Take Him, Blue Two by Brian Bateman. (P) Urban Ben Drew scores his second victory, and his first aerial victory, as he claims a Bf109G over Lisieux, France in 1944. His wing leader, Martin Johnson, had his guns jammed as the twisting turning low level dogfight took place, so the frustrated leader quipped to Ben - take him Blue Two. With all four guns in working order Ben took over and shot him down as they passed over a French farmhouse. |
Detroit Miss by Brian Bateman. (P) Urban Ben Drew in his P-51 Mustang Detroit Miss claiming his fifth victory to become an Ace. The German Heinkel He111 was over the Baltic Sea on 18th September 1944 when it was spotted by Ben. Attempting to escape Ben and the two other Mustangs with him, the German aircraft made for the coast, but was shot down and plunged into the sea before making landfall. |
Historic Victory by Brian Bateman. (P) Urban Ben Drew in his P-51 Mustang makes his strafing run on the monster German BV-238 flying boat. A one of a kind prototype, the BV-238 was strafed and sunk on Lake Schaal by the three Mustangs led by Drew on 18th September 1944. When it first flew earlier in 1944, the BV-238 was the heaviest aircraft ever to have flown, and was the largest axis aircraft of the war. After being destroyed by the Mustangs, it was the single largest aircraft to have been destroyed in the war. |
Erich Rudorffer by Brian Bateman. (P) The Fw190 of Erich Rudorffer taxiing on a Russian airfield in 1943. |
Devastating Thunder by Brian Bateman. (P) P-47D Thunderbolts, affectionately called 'Razorbacks' flown by Col Steve 'Spiro' Pisanos and his wingman of 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, wreaking havoc on a German BR52 supply train over northern France in early 1944. Strafing targets of opportunity was, as Steve put it, exhilarating as hell but also extremely dangerous. Steve said that from his RAF training he learned never to pull up after the run, keeping low so as not to make yourself an easier target. |
Shooting Swallows by Brian Bateman. (P) Ben Drew shot down two Me262s in October of 1944. The painting shows the second Me262 as the main subject with Ben's Detroit Miss peeling off at full speed after he showered the aircraft with the fatal bullets. The shoot down action was so quick in occurring, (31 seconds), that Drew never saw what had actually happened to the pilot, Oblt. Paul Bley, who slipped over the side in time to live to fight again. As fate would have it Oblt. Bley was killed 2 weeks later when his 262 developed trouble while taking off and he plowed into a tractor at the end of the field. |
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