A Time For Heros by Robert Taylor - Aviation Art

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A Time For Heroes

By Robert Taylor

 

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Band of Brothers Part IV:
Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Fighter Pilots of World War II

 Royal Air Force and Royal Navy fighter aircrews flew combat throughout the six long years of World War Two. At the outbreak of war in 1939 four RAF Hurricane squadrons and two equipped with Gladiators went immediately to France where in short time New Zealander "Cobber" Kain became the first Allied Ace of the war. In April 1940 Hurricanes and Gladiators saw in action in Norway, when Rhodesian Caesar Hull of 263 Squadron became the second air Ace.

By the fall of France the new Spitfire joined in the great air battles over the Channel as the British Expeditionary Force evacuated Dunkirk. Bob Stanford -Tuck, Douglas Bader, Peter Townsend, Sailor Malan, and many other great Aces gained their first victories, but with German forces massing on the French coast, the invasion of Britain looked imminent. Only RAF Fighter Command stood in Hitler's way. By July, the most famous of all air battles had pitfires of 234 Squadron, 10 Group's top scoring squadron, returning to St. Eval after intercepting heavy raids on south coast ports during the heaviest fighting, in September 1940.

St. Michael's Mount, the castle built on the site of a 14th Century monastery to defend Britain's shores from earlier enemies, provides a symbolic backdrop as once again a band of brothers is called upon to defend their Sceptred Isle. 


Overall size 31" wide x 23" high

Each proof is matted and includes the original signatures of:

  • Air Marshal SIR DENIS CROWLEY-MILLING
  • Air Commodore PETE BROTHERS 
  • Air Vice-Marshal JOHNNIE JOHNSON 
  • Wing Commander HARBOURNE STEPHENS 
  • Group Captain PETER TOWNSEND

 

 

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