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‘The Americans gave us the best they had, and they gave us everything we needed as and when the need arose….. they were the bravest of the brave, and I know that I am speaking for my own bomber crews when I pay this tribute.
MRAF Sir Arthur Harris
Through bitter experience and heavy losses, RAF Bomber...
Flown by Flt Lt Bill Reid a Lancaster from 61 Sqn, heavily damaged by German night-fighter attacks, heads to Dusseldorf during a bombing mission on the night of 3 November 1943. Although badly wounded, pilot Bill Reid and his crew pressed on to bomb their target before returning home. For his courage and devotion to duty Reid was awarded the Victoria Cross.
Few...
14 January 1945; and the war was not going well for Germany. The noose was tightening as American, British and Canadian armies, having broken out from their Normandy landings seven months earlier, stood on the banks of the Rhine. In the east vast numbers of Russians were driving relentlessly towards Berlin. On their bomb-cratered airfields the Luftwaffe prepared for the final onslaught...
For those on the ground there were few sights more stirring than a B-17 Fortress on its final approach from a combat mission and Robert’s outstanding painting is no exception.
This now legendary piece by the world's foremost aviation artist conjures up those exhilarating final moments as an exhausted pilot and his crew bring their mighty warbird safely home to the welcoming...
The revolutionary Me262 jet was unleashed just too late to change the course of the war – but it still created havoc amongst the bombers of the Eight Air Force as Robert Taylor’s poignant masterpiece depicts.
Had the Me262 been developed solely as an interceptor it would have blunted the ever increasing, deep-penetration American daylight bomber raids into Germany....
THE JAILBREAKERS
"I thank you in the name of our comrades for the bombardment of the prison. We were not able to save all. Thanks to the admirable precision of the attack the first bomb blew in nearly all doors and 150 prisoners escaped with the help of the civilian population. Of these, 12 were to have been shot on...
As the silver moonlight glints on the wave tops below, Guy Gibson leads the first wave of Lancasters low across the North Sea.
In one of the finest paintings of his career, leading aviation artist Anthony Saunders has completed one of the most compelling Dambuster images of recent years. With silver moonlight glinting...
“As we came over the hill we saw the Möhne Lake. Then we saw the dam itself. In that light it looked squat, and heavy, and unconquerable”
Wing Commander Guy Gibson
Within seconds of successfully releasing their Upkeep ‘bouncing bomb’, “Dinghy” Young and the crew of...
COMMEMORATING THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918
At 11.00am on 11 November 1918 the guns along the Western Front fell silent.
Germany, in retreat and humiliated by the failure of its great Spring Offensive, had sued for peace and an Armistice had finally been signed. The war described as ‘the war to end all wars’ was finally over but peace came at a terrible price;...
COMMEMORATING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914 – 1918
The Third Battle of Ypres began on 31 July 1917 and was planned as a great Allied offensive that would drive the enemy back to the North Sea, allowing the capture of German-occupied ports in Belgium from where U-Boats were taking their toll of both the Royal Navy and merchant shipping. It was hoped the offensive would...
