Liberation - Sainte Mere Eglise
For nearly four years, the swastika had flown belligerently
over the small town of
Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy. Suddenly, shortly
after midnight on the night of
5/6th June 1944, parachutists from the 82nd Airborne
Division began landing in
and around the town. By 04.30, after a tough fire
fight, troopers from the 505th PIR
had raised another flag over the town – the Stars
and Stripes – and Sainte Mere Eglise
had become the first town in Normandy to be liberated
by the Allies on D-Day. Sherman
tanks landing on nearby Utah Beach with the US VII
Corps were soon passing through
the newly liberated town on the way to the front.
Every print in this unique edition has been signed
by two American veterans who
fought with the 82nd Airborne Division on D-Day plus
James Megellas, the 82nd’s
most highly decorated officer.
135 Limited Edition ~ $165
25 Artist Proofs ~ $265
25 Remarqued Edition ~ $445
10 Double Remarques - Subject to availability~ $725
Signed by:
Lieutenant Colonel James 'Maggie' Megellas
Sergeant Bob Bearden
Sergeant Milton Schlesener
Print Size: 31½” x 26¾”
Masters of the Sky
Led by their Commanding Officer Major George Preddy,
the P-51 Mustang pilots of the
328th Fighter Squadron engage in a bitter struggle
with Luftwaffe fighters in the cold
winter air high over eastern Germany. They have been
escorting B-17 Fortresses
attacking the heavily defended synthetic oil plant
at Merseberg, November 1944. As
the B-17s turn safely towards home above them, Preddy
skilfully manages to down
one of the attacking Fw190s in the ensuing melee.
This outstanding new limited edition, together with
the masterful companion drawing
PREPARING
FOR ACTION, further enhances Richard Taylor’s growing reputation
as one of the world’s greatest aviation art talents.
The edition is signed by some of the
352nd’s most respected pilots and by a number of their
vital ground crew:
100 Limited Edition ~ $165
Signed by:
Captain George Middleton
Saff Sergeant Art Snyder (Companion print)
150 Collectors Edition ~ $215
Signed by:
Captain George Middleton
Saff Sergeant Art Snyder (Companion print)
First Lieutenant Walter G. 'Jack" Diamond
Lieutenant Colonel Donald S. Bryan
150 Blue Nose Edition ~ $295
Signed by:
Captain George Middleton
Saff Sergeant Art Snyder (Companion print)
First Lieutenant Walter G. 'Jack" Diamond
Lieutenant Colonel Donald S. Bryan
Captain Robert H. 'Punchy' Powell
Lieutenant Colonel Raymond R. Mitchell
Lieutenant Charles M. Price
Companion Print Signatures:
Staff Sergeant James Bleidner
Master Sergeant Ralph McLain
Staff Sergeant Bill Straub
Corporal Howard Polin
Print Size: 32” x 24”
First Strike
Led by Wing Commander J.B. Nicolson VC, CO of 27 Squadron
(the Flying Elephants)
based in north-east India, a pair of Mosquito FBVIs
power their way home across
jungle-covered hills of northern Burma. They have
just completed the squadron’s
first combat operation, a successful strike against
Japanese ground targets along
the vital railway link near Mandalay, Christmas Day
1943.
300 LIMITED EDITION ~ $165
Each print has been personally signed by three RAF
veterans who flew the
de Havilland Mosquito during World War II. They are
also signed by the artist,
Richard Taylor, and individually hand-numbered.
Flight Sergeant Stanley 'Paddy' Hope
Warrant Officer Richard 'Dick' Maywood
Squadron Leader John Brown DFC
150 COLLECTORS EDITIONS ~ $225
These NINE signature editions are additionally signed
by the following
aircrew that flew the Mosquito during WWII:
Flight Lieutenant Dennis Gosling
Flying Officer Les Hadley
Squadron Leader Zbysek 'Nicky' Necas - Czech War Cross
*
Warrant Officer ‘Bert’ Winwood
Flight Lieutenant Des Curtis DFC
Flight Lieutenant Roger Calvert
Print Size: 23½" x 30½"
Into the Fray
Squadron Leader Douglas Bader leads the Hurricanes
of 242 Squadron
in an aggressive diving attack upon a large force
of Heinkel 111s approaching
the Kent coast, whilst Spitfires from 66 Squadron
tangle with the escorting
Bf109s of JG52. It is September 1940, and the climax
of the Battle of Britain.
350 Limited Edition ~ $165
Signed by:
Gp Capt Billy Drake DSO DFC* - 213 Sqn
Gp Capt Byron Duckenfield AFC - 501 Sqn
150 Collector's Edition ~ $225
Signed by:
Wg Cdr Tim Elkington - 1 Sqn
Sqn Ldr ‘Bob’ Foster DFC - 605 Sqn
A/Cdre John Ellacombe CB DFC* - 151 Sqn
Sqn Ldr Tony Pickering AFC - 501 Sqn
Print Size: 21½" x 34¾"
Evening Reflection
With soft evening sunlight radiant behind them, Hauptmann
Wolfgang Ewald,
Gruppenkommandeur of 1./JG52, leads a schwarm of Bf109s
back to their
base near Calais after another hectic encounter with
pilots of RAF Fighter
Command during the Battle of Britain, September 1940.
325 Limited Edition ~ $115
Signed by:
Major Hans-Ekkehard Bob KC-JC54
Major Erich Rudorffer KC-JG2
Print Size: 22" x 25½"
Holding the Tide
On August 7, 1942, just eight months after the dramatic
events at Pearl Harbor,
the United States First Marine Division stormed ashore
on the island of Guadalcanal.
It was the opening gambit of the land war in the Pacific.
Richard Taylor’s new
masterpiece portrays Captain Joe Foss as he leads
the F4F Wildcats of VMF-121
back to Henderson Field after a day of desperate fighting
against the Japanese in
the skies over the steaming jungles of Guadalcanal
in November 1942. It would be
another three months before the island was finally
secured, during which time
Joe Foss would achieve an astonishing 26 victories
to become the first American
pilot to equal WW1 Ace Eddie Rickenbacker’s score.
350 Limited Edition ~ $165
Signed by:
Commander Leslie Fortner USN
Captain Stanley 'Swede' Vejtasa USN
Print Size: 24" x 32"
Dawn Till Dusk
COMMEMORATING THE 65th ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY – JUNE
6th
Fighter Ace Johnnie Johnson leads MkIX Spitfires of
his 144 Canadian
Wing back to their base at Ford after a long day of
operations over Normandy
shortly after D-Day. The wing flew constant fighter
sweeps throughout the
Normandy Invasions, before relocating to France on
June 15th1944. This
superb new edition is personally signed by outstanding
Aces who flew with
the Canadian Wing during the Normandy Invasions, under
the leadership
of the highest scoring RAF Ace of WWII – Johnnie Johnson
350 Limited Edition ~ $165
Signed by:
Wing Commander J.F ‘Stocky’ Edwards DFC DFM
Wing Commander James Lindsay DFC
70 Collectors Edition ~ $195
Signed by all the above plus:
Lieutenant General Don Laubman DFC
Squadron Leader Roy Wizniak DFC
Print Size: 30 1/2” x 23 1/2”
Dawn Strike
As the first rays of daylight spread their golden glow
over the vast expanse
of sky above the Russian Front, the menacing roar
of heavily armed Bf 110’s
of 6./ZGI shake the cold air around them as they prepare
for a dawn strike
against enemy ground targets deep inside Russian territory.
Above them,
their Me 109 escorts, alert for danger, constantly
scan the distant skies for
any enemy intruders that may be on the prowl and waiting
for them.
450 Limited Edition ~ $130
Gefreiter Karl-Heinz Schoenemann, Me110 wireless operator
Print Size: 27¼” x 20”
Holding the Line
Skillfully led by their mercurial commander, SS-Hauptsturmführer
Michael Wittmann,
the Tiger Tanks of s.SS-Pz. Abt. 101 blaze through
a shattered French village in the
days following D-Day, June, 1944. Their destination
– Normandy!
400 Limited Edition ~ $175
Obergefreiter Henry Metelmann
Feldwebel Heinz Fellbrich
Sturmann Karl-Heinz Decker
Print Size: 35” x 21 1/2”
Typhoons Outward Bound
In the months following D-Day, Hawker’s hard-hitting,
snub-nosed Typhoon
struck terror into the German formations in Normandy,
crack Panzer units
wilted under the constant hail of rockets and bombs.
Several times a day the
Typhoon pilots would cross the Channel to run the
gauntlet of flak and ground
fire, and deliver their lethal cargo. The Typhoon’s
lethal weaponry is clearly
visible in Richard Taylor’s beautiful new painting
Typhoons Outward Bound.
As another fine summer day begins, Typhoon Mk1b’s
of 247 Squadron are
en-route to theNormandy battlefront, the first of
several missions that day.
Skimming at mast-top height, the Typhoons pass over
two ancient steam
drifters, conscripted into the wartime role of patrolling
the Channel and,
should the need arise, rescuing any downed aircrew
in need of help.
400 Limited Edition ~ $150
Signed by:
Wing Commander J.F.D. ‘Tim' Elkington
Warrant Officer John ‘Abe’ Lincoln
Pilot Officer ‘Rusty’ Townsend
Print Size: 27 3/8" x 23 1/4"
Vital Force
Richard Taylor’s poignant new painting captures eloquently
the urgency of a
scramble – an everyday occurrence during those frantic
days in the summer
of 1940. Battle of Britain ace Flight Lieutenant Ian
Gleed leads a detachment
of Hurricane Mk1s from 87 Squadron as they climb out
of their Exeter airfield
during the peak of the battle in the high summer of
1940.
400 Limited Edition Signed and Numbered ~ $160
Signed by:
Flight Lieutenant Peter Hairs MD
Flight Lieutenant Bill Green
Group Captain Byro Duckenfield AFC
Print Size: 34 5/8” x 22 7/8”
Threatening Skies
Richard Taylor's latest painting, recreates an encounter
on 19 February 1945.
As dawn breaks over the Pacific, a determined force
of Japanese Ki-44's launch
a surprise attack on a large formation of USAAF B-29
Superfortresses as they
approach the Japanese mainland. B-29 gunners let rip
as one fighter flashes past,
with a second fighter closing at high speed. Chunks
of the B-29's port wing and
aileron have been taken out in the initial attack,
and with another Japanese fighter
fast on its tail, the outcome of this particular encounter
hangs in the balance. A
total of ten Superfortresses fell victim that day.
Each print is issued with a companion print INTO THE
SUN signed by the Artist
With
the onset of dawn, Captain Yoshio Yoshida, an Ace
with 6 victories over B29s to his credit, together
with other
pilots of the 3rd Chutai, 70th Sentai, power their
Nagajima Ki44s
into an attacking position ready to strike the strong
incoming force
of B29 Superfortresses in the distance beyond. Within
afew minutes
another titanic clash will erupt in the skies over
Japan as the B29
crews fight their way through to the target.
500 Signed & Numbered ~ $160
25 Artist Proofs ~ $205
25 Remarques ~ $455
Signed by:
Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Nutter
Colonel James Pattillo
Captain Ben Robertson
Print Size: 30 1/2” x 23 1/2”
