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CURRENT CATALOGUE
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Current Catalog shows alphabetically, by artists, all prints currently
available from the Military Gallery. Many are now low in inventory
and a few close to selling out. Click on thumbnail image or title
to see larger image and more information.
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SAFE RETURN
In recognition of the Wellington's place in aviation history artist Anthony Saunders has chosen to depict an aircraft from 99 Squadron, the first squadron to be equipped with the type, as the subject of his detailed painting aptly named Safe Return. It portrays a scene that occurred at dawn on 29 February 1940 when one of the squadron's bombers with Pilot Officer Reginald Williams at the controls lost power to its port engine whilst heading out over the North Sea. Aborting his mission and low on power, Williams struggles to gain height in order to clear approaching cliffs. Thankfully he succeeded, managing to coax his damaged bomber back to base.
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SAGAN - THE GREAT ESCAPE PRINT AND BOOK PORTFOLIO
The Great Escape was perhaps the most daring escape attempt of the war, involving the mass breakout of more than 200 Allied Airmen by digging three long tunnels (nicknamed Tom, Dick, and Harry), an audacious feat of tunnelling that would be long and dangerous.
Richard Taylor's superb drawing, completed in his trademark graphite and paint combination, recreates the scene as escaped POW's, dressed in plain clothes, mix with local civilians in an attempt to catch the early morning train and make their bid for freedom.
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SAINTE MERE EGLISE
In the early hours of 6 June 1944, after a widely scattered drop, some in the Division's 505th PIR found themselves landing right in the heart of the town, caught in the glowing light cast by a burning building. With the white silk of their parachutes clearly visible, many of the men hanging defencelessly beneath them were easy targets. The casualty rate was high but, after regrouping with other units, the men of the 82nd attacked in a ferocious assault and a fierce firefight with the German defenders soon erupted. By dawn it was over and with the capture of the town the Stars and Stripes now flew over Sainte-Mère-Église.
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SAINTE MERE EGLISE - the drawing edition
St. Mère Église - the first town to be liberated by Allied soldiers on the morning of June 6th, 1944, when, at 6.30 men of the Airborne Rangers parachuted into the town.
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SAINTE MERE EGLISE - U.S. AIRBORNE TRIBUTE EDITION
Each print in this edition is issued with a specially commissioned original pencil drawing by Simon Smith which has been signed by two distinguished US Airborne veterans who jumped into Normandy on D-Day. It is also conservation matted to include the original pencil signatures of a further two veterans who served with the famous 'Band of Brothers', Easy Company, 101st Airborne.
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SALUTE TO THE BRAVE
Luftwaffe Ace Franz Stigler declines to destroy a seemingly defenceless and battered B-17 from the 379th Bomb Group as it limps home following a raid on Bremen, 20 December 1943. Having assessed the critical state of the Fortress flown by 2nd Lt Charlie Brown, and glimpsed some of the badly wounded men through gaping holes in the fuselage, Stigler decides to escort the bomber to the North Sea coast on a heading for England. In a final act of chivalry, the German pilot looked across at his American counterpart and raised a gloved hand in salute before swinging his aircraft away.
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SCHWEINFURT - THE SECOND MISSION GICLÉE CANVAS PROOF
Schweinfurt - The Second Mission is one of Robert Taylor's most dramatic paintings. Depicting Colonel Budd Peaslee's B-17 Equipose, flown by Kemp Maclaughlin, as they lead the Fortresses of the 92nd Bomb Group high over Germany en-route to Schweinfurt and under constant attack from enemy fighters, it is the latest Giclée Proof on canvas issued to commemorate the heroism shown by the young men who flew with the Eighth Air Force on the Regensberg - Schweinfurt missions.
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