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As men and materiel pour ashore from the recently installed, prefabricated ‘Mulberry Harbour A’ at Omaha Beach, a pair of RAF Mk 1b Typhoons from 245 Squadron race back towards their base at Holmesley South in Hampshire, to re-fuel and re-arm. The Typhoon pilots have just delivered a devastating rocket attack on German positions behind the Normandy beachhead. A few days later a violent storm...
A TRIBUTE TO THE HAWKER HURRICANE
Designed by Sydney Camm in the early 1930s, the Hurricane was the RAF’s first fighter capable of flying at over 300mph. Compared to Mitchell’s radical new Spitfire the Hurricane was built using the traditional methods that underpinned the high regard pilots had for Hawker aircraft. It would soon prove to be one of the...
Paratroopers of the US 101st Airborne Division prepare to board Douglas C-47s at Upottery Airfield on the eve of D-Day. Shortly after 22.00hrs they will set course for Normandy and, after crossing the French coast under heavy AA fire, drop behind Utah Beach to seize key objectives just hours before the largest seaborne invasion in history.
A DEADLY ENCOUNTER RAGES HIGH ABOVE THE ITALIAN ALPS AS THE MEN OF THE 12th AIR FORCE BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF THE BRENNER PASS
Whilst the Allies pushed ever closer towards Berlin, in the south, amidst the snow-capped mountains of the Italian Alps, an equally bitter and increasingly brutal battle was raging as the Axis forces struggled to keep open their last major...
At sunrise on 12 November 1944, led by Wing Commander James Tait, Lancasters of 617 Squadron RAF prepare to make their bombing run on the German battleship Tirpitz. As they assemble for the target run, Tait steers 270 degrees towards their target moored some 100 miles to the west in the Norwegian fjord at Tromsø. The fate of the Tirpitz is...
THE LIMITED EDITION PRINT & BOOK PORTFOLIO ISSUED WITH THE STUNNING BOOK 'WINGS OF WAR' BY ANTHONY SAUNDERS
“Without your genius and efforts we could not have prevailed, for I believe that the Lancaster was the greatest single factor in winning the war.”
Marshal of the RAF Sir Arthur Harris,...
THE SECOND RELEASE IN THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED THREE HUNDRED CLUB PORTFOLIO
During an astonishing three year period on the Eastern Front Erich Hartmann downed 352 enemy aircraft to become the highest-scoring Ace in history.
It is a record likely to stand for all time, and to complete the Three Hundred Club Portfolio, Robert Taylor pays tribute to the Ace of Aces...
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle...this happy breed of men, this little world, this precious stone set in the silver sea, which serves it in the office of a wall or as a moat defensive to a house, against the envy of less happier lands…this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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At 8.20am on April 18, 1942, just four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a small force of B-25 Mitchell bombers under the command of Col Jimmy Doolittle, undertook one of the most remarkable air raids of World War II. The Raiders’ orders were anything but simple: fly low level some 800 miles over water into Japanese territory without escort, attack targets in Tokyo and...
In May 1944 Wing Commander Roland ‘Bee’ Beamont led three squadrons of Hawker Tempests into operations for the first time. Flying from RAF Newchurch in Kent, one of the advanced landing grounds constructed in preparation for the invasion of France, they formed 150 Wing RAF.
The far-sighted Beamont had almost single-handedly overseen the transformation of the Hawker...
