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Spitfire Maintenance Check by Graeme Lothian. (P) Spitfire JE-J of Spitfire Ace Johnnie Johnson is shown with the engine cowling removed during maintenance. |
Pak40 Mounted on SPW Half-Track by Jason Askew. (P) The Pak 40 - a hard hitting 75mm German anti-tank gun-seen here mounted on an SPW for greater battlefield mobility was essentially a scaled up version of the PaK 38 debuted in Russia where it was needed to combat the newest Soviet tanks there. It was designed to fire the same low-capacity APCBC, HE and HL projectiles which had been standardized for usage in the long barreled KwK 40 tank guns. |
Victory Over Malta by Ivan Berryman. (P) George Beurling in Spitfire VC BR301 in action against a Macchi 202 over Malta in 1942. |
A Quick Despatch by Ivan Berryman. (P) Sqn Ldr James Leathart watches another of his victims, a Heinkel He.111, slowly roll over in its death throes above the beaches near Dunkirk on 21st May 1940, flying Spitfire Mk.1 P9389 (KL-A) of 54 Sqn, based at Hornchurch. All but one of his many claimed victories were scored in this aircraft which was eventually lost in October 1940 whilst being flown by Plt Off C Stewart, who baled out and survived the incident relatively unscathed. |
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. |
Hurricanes - 85 Squadron by Graeme Lothian. (P) Hawker Hurricanes of No.85 Sqn RAF take off to intercept another enemy raid during the Battle of Britain. |
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. |
Dogfight - Battle of Britain by Graeme Lothian. (P) No text for this item |
Lucky 13 by David Pentland. (P) St Nazaire, France, 3rd January 1943. The Fw190A4 of Georg-Peter Schorsch Eder, 7/JG2, streaks past Meat Hound, a B17F of th 423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group en route to attack the U-boat pens at St Nazaire. Along with his Gruppenkommandeur Egon Mayer, it was Eder who pioneered the head on pass tactic against the Flying Fortresses. On this day he to achieve his thirteenth victory, and second B17. By the end of the war he had accounted for some 36 heavy bombers. |
Battle of Britain - 85 Squadron Hurricanes by Graeme Lothian. (P) Hurricanes of 85 Squadron scramble during the Battle of Britain. |
Danger Over Dieppe by David Pentland. (P) While on an early morning sortie over Dieppe to support the allied landing Operation Jubilee, the Hawker Hurricane IIc of Alex Thom sustained flak damage to its engine. Despite a severe oil leak he nursed his aircraft safely back to England where he made a successful forced landing. |
Focke Wulf Supremacy by Ivan Berryman. (P) No text for this item |
Tankriders by David Pentland. (P) Kursk, Russia, August 1943. Soviet counterattack by T34/76s and infantry of 3rd Tank Army on Orel. |
Billy Drake - First of Many by Ivan Berryman. (P) Group Captain Billy Drake in Hurricane JX-P of No.1 Sqn scoring his first victory, an Me109 during the Battle of France, on 20th April 1940. |
Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th - 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. (P) Wachtmeister Fritz Amling was a gun commander in 3rd Battery, Sturmgeschutz Battalion 202, in the Wajsma sector of the front at the start of the Soviet Operation Mars. During the first days fighting Amling, along with his gunner Bruno Guskowski, accounted for 24 enemy tanks, five of these in one minute! By the end of the second day, despite being wounded they had destroyed a further 18 tanks, a total of 42 in 48 hours. |
The Ambush, North of Malinava Latvia, 22nd July 1944 by David Pentland. (P) Six Tiger I tanks including Albert Kersher and Lt. Otto Carius, of 2nd Company. Heavy tank Battalion 502, prepare to take up ambush positions for the soon to arrive soviet tank brigade. In the ensuing encounter, the Tigers destroyed the entire column of 28 Josef Stalin IIs. |
Bismarck Survivor by Jason Askew. (P) Captured in portrait is one of the survivors of the sinking of the mighty German battleship Bismarck, Bruno Rzonca, set against the scene of a Swordfish aircraft attacking the ship. |
Unhappy New Year by David Pentland. (P) B78 Eindhoven, Holland, 1st January 1945. Major Heinz Bar, Kommodore of Jagdgeswader 3, bounces a flight of 438 Squadron RCAF Typhoons attempting to take off from Eindhoven airfield. His attack was merely the start of a massed attack by the entire JG3, some 60 aircraft, which were only several minutes behind him. Despite losing some 15 pilots killed or captured, the attack destroyed 44 aircraft on the ground, and 9 in the air, including 2 Typhoons by Major Bar. An additional 60 were badly damaged. |
A Nimble Foe by David Pentland. (P) Krasnowardeist, Russia, 21st September 1941. Oblt. Hans-Ekkehard Bob claimed his 36th victory over a Soviet Polikarpov I-153 as the German forces surged towards Leningrad. Although an obsolete design, the I-153 was a very manoeuvrable and potentially deadly foe. |
Avro Anson by Ivan Berryman. (P) An Avro Anson comes under attack from an Me109. |
San Sebastian - Ensign Figure Study by Mark Churms. (P) Study for the original painting Assault on the Breach of San Sebastian. |
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