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With its sleek, graceful design, instantly recognisable by its thin, aerodynamically advanced elliptical wings, the Supermarine Spitfire was the creation of R. J. Mitchell, an aeronautical creative genius. His fighter was to become not only the most important Allied aircraft of World War II, but the most famous British fighter in history.
As dawn breaks a pair of Spitfire Mk1s fly...
Throughout the six long years from the first to the last day of World War II, the Spitfire and Messerschmitt Bf109 were locked in combat. In the annals of aerial combat no two such evenly matched aircraft have fought so consistently over such a sustained period of time. And perhaps no painting captures the essence of those duels than Robert Taylor’s Eagles High.
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With its distinctive frontal radiator scoop, the Typhoon became the benchmark of all ground attack aircraft to serve in WWII.
At the time of D-Day and during the Allied advance through Europe, the Typhoon became the backbone of the 2nd Tactical Air Force’s ground attack Wings. Deadly at low level, and fast, the Typhoon could outrun the Me109 and Fw190, and was robust enough to take...
When it came to hammering German ground forces in the days after D-Day, Lockhead’s outstanding P-38 Lighting gained an awesome reputation.
With bright yellow spinners and distinctive twin-booms glinting in the June sunshine, two P-38 Lockheed Lightnings of the USAAF's 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group hurtle low over Pegasus Bridge as they race across the Normandy landscape...
This outstanding drawing features a group of paratroopers outside the Café de Normandie enjoying a break in the intense fighting, during the Allied advance shortly after D-Day.
Richard’s work is simply superb and yet another reason why he is regarded as one of the best pencil artists in the industry.
The weather on the morning of 31 December, 1944 was already unpleasant. In the Ardennes, hard-pressed German troops were battling Allied ground forces advancing through several inches of snow. Above, darkening skies heralded the arrival of more snow. At 10.45am, in deteriorating weather, a battle formation of 30 Fw190D fighters climbed out of Varrelbusch and headed south over the snowcovered...
The Battle of Britain had been won by the young fighter pilots of Fighter Command, but now it fell to another band of young men to wage total warfare against the Nazi war machine – the aircrew of RAF Bomber Command.
A lone Halifax of 405 Sqn RCAF struggles home the hard way – damaged and alone. One of the aircraft’s engines is already out and another is smoking...
The date is February 16, 1944. Intelligence has reported enemy shipping in the region of New Hanover, a large island west of New Ireland, and 41 strafers from the 345th have joined three squadrons of the 38th Bomb Group to hunt them down. In the foreground the 500th Squadron's B-25, 'Rita's Wagon' having raked the 420-ton Japanese Subchaser No.39 with machinegun fire, has released a...
For nearly four years, the swastika had flown belligerently over the small town of Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy. Suddenly, shortly after midnight on the night of 5/6th June 1944, parachutists from the 82nd Airborne Division began landing in and around the town.
By 04.30, after a tough fire fight, troopers from the 505th PIR had raised another flag over the town – the Stars...
In the dark days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American forces fought back against an overwhelming Japanese onslaught, with obsolete aircraft and equipment. With minimal resources and no hope of reinforcement, they fought a desperate, losing battle, hoping to buy a little time for the United States and her allies in the Pacific. As the Japanese advanced through the Phillipines,...
