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Standing Guard by Graeme Lothian. (P) A soldier of the Home Guard watches over a downed Me109 fighter as a squadron of RAF Hurricanes fly overhead. More Hawker Hurricanes flew during the Battle of Britain than Spitfires, guarding Britain against the might of the Luftwaffe. |
Tip of the Spear by David Pentland. (P) Isle of Wight, England, 28th November 1940. Late in the afternoon, the Me109s of JG2 took off on a Frei Jagd or fighter sweep over southern England. At its head, and leading the Stabschwarm was the Geschwaderkommodore Helmut Wick, along with his wingmen Erich Leie, Rudolf Pflanz, and Erich Rudorffer. When RAF Spitfires were sighted Wick gave the order to engage and the staff flight pulled away to give battle - it was to be his final dogfight. In the ensuing battle, Wick, Pflanz, and Gunther Seeger each claimed a Spitfire, but Wick in turn was lost to the RAF. |
Bf109Es of JG52 by Ivan Berryman. (P) Bf109Es of JG52 flown by Gunther Rall during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. |
British Paratrooper 2002 by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
Half-Salvo by Ivan Berryman. (P) A Bristol Beaufighter of No.248 Sqn, Banff Strike Wing, fires off a half-salvo of four rockets. |
S.A.S. British Columbia by Chris Collingwood (P) No text for this item |
Wing Commander Bob Doe during the Battle of Britain by Graeme Lothian. (P) Wing Commander Bob Doe in his Spitfire is shown attacking Heinkel He-111s during the Battle of Britain. |
Attack on the Sorpe by Ivan Berryman. (P) McCarthy's aircraft, ED825(G) AJ-T attacking the undefended Sorpe Dam with the village in the background and the church with the steeple that they had to avoid on the hilltop. Such was the difficulty of the approach to this dam - attacked along its length in contrast to the other dams which were attacked perpendicular to the dam - McCarthy needed to make a total of ten runs before the bomb was dropped accurately. Despite such determination, the bomb failed to cause any significant damage to the massive earth dam. |
D-Day Recce by David Pentland. (P) Juno Beach, Normandy, 6th June 1944. Sdkfz 232 armoured cars of 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion commanded by Obersturmfuhrer Peter Hansmann observe the Canadian beachhead at Juno Beach. His small team was tasked with finding out if an invasion was actually underway and it drove some 80km, arriving at the coast near Tracy at 7.30 in the morning to witness the landings in progress. |
Cpl Allen and Cpl Lyons, Rorkes Drift 1879 by Mark Churms. (P) Study for the original painting Wounded. |
On the Beach by David Pentland (P) American troops storm Omaha Beach during the Normandy Landings, 6th of June 1944. |
Supermarine Spitfire by Graeme Lothian. (P) Original pencil drawing showing two Spitfires. Signed by Graeme Lothian only. |
Marines 1804 by Chris Collingwood. (P) No text for this item |
Looking for Trouble by David Pentland. (P) Kursk, Russia, July, 1943. T-70 light tanks of 2nd Tank Army on a reconnaissance patrol near Ponyri-Goreloje. |
Messerschmitt versus Messerschmitt by David Pentland. (P) Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 6th April 1941. While escorting Stukas at the start of the German Balkan campaign, the Me109Es of JG54 were engaged by Me109Es of the Yugoslav air force. During the ensuing melee, ObLt. Hans-Ekkehard Bob claimed his 20th victory. |
Folgore at El Alamein by David Pentland. (P) North Africa, 30th September - 6th November 1942. During the final battle at El Alamein the Italian paratroopers of the 185th Folgore Parachute Division held the southern end of the Axis defence line down to the Qattara Depression. For several days they repelled constant attacks by a succession of Commonwealth units including the vaunted 7th Armoured Division, The Desert Rats. All of this ended on November 6th, when the last organized group commanded by Colonel Camosso and Major Zanninovich, surrounded by British tanks, finished its ammunition reserves. From an initial strength of 5,000, only 306 paratroopers were still alive. For their bravery, the British gave them the singular honour of allowing the Folgore survivors to retain their weapons on their surrender. |
U-Boat of the 11th Flotilla by Jason Askew. (P) The Swordfish emblem of the 11th Flotilla adorns this drawing, alongside a U-Boat and its commander, Erich Topp. |
Tiger on the Russian Front by Jason Askew. (P) No text for this item |
Holding the Vistula by David Pentland. (P) Gerhard Fischer. Poland, 31st July 1944. Jagdpanzer IV Pz Jager Batt 5, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. Jagdpanzer IVs of 5th SS Panzer Panzerjager battalion Wiking employed east of Warsaw to halt the Soviet attempts to break into the besieged city. |
Black 13 - Gunther Rall by Ivan Berryman. (P) Gunther Rall scored almost all of his huge tally of 275 victories on the eastern front. Here, his Me109 Black 13 is shown over the snowy landscape that JG52 often operated in. |
Spitfire - Fighting Lady by Graeme Lothian. (P) Johnnie Johnsons Spitfire on patrol over the British coastline. This is the original sketch for the oil painting Fighting Lady. |
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