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Having completed a successful bomber interception high above Salzburg, the ME262s led by Adolf Galland, are returning towards Munich-Riem at full throttle, hugging the deck to avoid the attentions of USAAF escort fighters. Below the crew of a B-24, brought down in the air-fighting has survived a dramatic crash-landing amid spectacular surroundings.
Charging into a blizzard of unyielding machine-gun and mortar fire, elements of the 29th Infantry Division lead the assault on Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944. The scene at the water’s edge is one of chaos and bloody carnage as the heavily laden troops begin the 200 yard rush across the bullet-swept sands of what would later be known as ‘Bloody’ Omaha.
The 29th Infantry...
HISTORIC COMMEMORATIVE BOOK
6 June 1944: the date that marked the beginning of the end of the war in north-west Europe, and the day on which the liberation of France began.
Re-live the story of D-Day with this 128 page book lavishly illustrated with paintings and drawings assembled from the archives of the Military Gallery. We travel through the...
Robert Taylor’s much-loved painting shows Spitfires of Johnnie Johnson’s famous 144 Canadian Wing scrambling from the newly prepared airstrip outside the village of St Croix-sur-Mer for the RAF's first combat sweep from French soil after D-Day.
Little over a mile inland from the junction of Gold and Juno beaches, the village was liberated by the Canadians on D-Day. Within...
By mid-afternoon on Wednesday 11th September, 1940 German bomber formations were plotted flying up the Thames Estuary towards London. To deal with the imminent raid Fighter Command scrambled nine squadrons to make the intercept. As the Luftwaffe bombers approached the docklands east of London, sixty Spitfires and Hurricanes fell upon them and a pitched battle ensued. Leading No. 74 'Tiger'...
Brimming with overconfidence, few on board the Japanese carrier Sōryū noticed the SBD Dauntless bombers gathering overhead. Within a matter of minutes a few courageous US Navy pilots would change the course of history .
Thursday 4 June 1942, and Admiral Yamamoto’s plan to draw what remained of the US Pacific fleet into battle was going well. That morning, before dawn, he...
”The Commander in Chief wants a special squadron formed for the job. And I want you to form it.”
The words from Air Vice-Marshall the Hon. Ralph Cochrane, newly appointed as AOC of No.5 Group, to the young Wing Commander Guy Gibson.
In one of the finest paintings of his career, leading aviation artist Anthony Saunders has completed one of the most...
When Luftwaffe bombers first appeared in force in the night skies over London in September 1940 they heralded the beginning of The Blitz - the most sustained period of concentrated bombing aimed at British cities during WWII.
Robert Taylor’s evocative painting brings to life the frightening scenario of the Luftwaffe’s night bombing campaign. It is December 1941, and London is once...
The breathtaking skill and courage displayed by the crews of 617 Squadron on the moonlit night of 17 May 1943 created a legend that remains undimished.
Guy Gibson leads the first wave of 617 Squadron’s Lancaster bombers towards the German border and on to the Mőhne dam. After crossing the coast a fraction off course, Gibson adjusts his compass heading...
On the night of 16/17 May 1943 an elite force of nineteen Lancaster bombers undertook what was to become one of the most daring and ingenious air raids in history. Flying from RAF Scampton, their mission – code named Operation Chastise - was to breach the mighty hydroelectric dams of the Ruhr, the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe – a task which Arthur Harris had earlier described as impossible...
