At 23.45 on the night of 5 June 1944, the 101st Airborne’s
most legendary
unit of combat paratroopers – the notorious ‘Filthy
Thirteen’ – jumped into
France near the village of Sainte Mère Église,
in the final hours before the
D-Day landings.
They were the Screaming Eagles’ most notorious unit,
a small bunch of raw,
tough, ruthless young men. Hard drinking and savage
fighting - and that was
only in training -with scant regard for authority.
And if the reputation of this
unique bunch of renegades within the ranks of the
101st was formidable, for
the Germans it became one of sheer terror.
Officially they were the First Demolition Squadron,
HQ Company, 506th PIR,
101st Airborne. Unofficially they were the ‘Filthy
Thirteen’.
225 LIMITED EDITION ~ $150
Each print in every edition is personally signed by
two of the original ‘Filthy Thirteen’,
together with artist Robert Taylor.
SGT Jake 'McNasty' Mcniece
PVT Jack 'Hawkeye' Womer
145 U.S. AIRBORNE DIVISIONS EDITION ~ $245
These distinguished signatories, have signed in tribute
to all the men who fought in
1944 with the Airborne Divisions on D-Day and following
the Normandy invasion.
Commemorating the US Airborne Divisions this TEN signature
edition is additionally
signed by the following veterans who served with the
82nd & 101st Airborne Divisions:
82ND AIRBORNE – ‘ALL AMERICAN’
Each print is personally signed by three veterans
that fought with the 82nd Airborne
during the Normandy campaign:
LT COL James 'Maggie' Megellas- Commander of H Company,
3rd Battallion, 504th PIR
SGT Bob Bearden - 82nd Airborne
SGT Milton Schlesener - 82nd Airborne
101ST AIRBORNE - ‘THE SCREAMING EAGLES’
This outstanding edition is also personally signed
by several of the 101st Airborne’s
most famous unit, the celebrated men of ‘Easy Company’,
the Division’s original
‘Band of Brothers’ who would be immortalised worldwide
through books and film.
CPL Bill Maynard - Easy Company
SGT Ed Tipper - Easy Company
SGT Bill True - Fox Company
S/SGT Frank Soboleski - Easy Company
CPL Herb Suerth - Easy Company
Print size 26¾” x 20¼”
Jet Hunters
On 10 April 1945 thirteen hundred bombers of the Mighty
Eighth set out to destroy
the last of the Luftwaffe’s jet force. But, unknown
to the bomber crews and their fighter
escort, the enemy jets were already airborne and waiting
to spring their deadly trap.
As the war in mainland Europe entered its final, bloody
phase, the German Armies
defending Berlin fought on with a savage determination,
slowly disintegrating before
the mighty weapon of war unleashed against them. What
remained of the Luftwaffe
was mercilessly pounded from the air, their airfields
hammered relentlessly.
Aircraft, fuel, spare parts, ammunition and pilots
all in short supply but still they
fought on, with deadly effect. At the forefront of
the German offensive and pivotal
during the defence of the Reich, were the highly advanced
jet fighters of the Luftwaffe,
and in particular the legendary Me262.
400 LIMITED EDITION ~ $320
Every print in has been signed by three, highly-distinguished
veterans who belong to
that small, talented band of Allied fighter pilots
to have scored a victory over a jet.
Major General Wayne C. Gatlin
Squadron Leader Jurek Mencel
Colonel Joe Peterburs
200 PILOTS’ EDITION ~ $375
This outstanding TWELVE signature edition is issued
with the magnificent
pencil companion print Black November Day and the
main print is additionally
signed by a further four pilots who scored victories
over German jets:
Lieutenant Colonel Don Cummings
Colonel Art Jeffrey
Captain Wayne L. Coleman
Lieutenant Colonel Huie Lamb
The companion drawing is signed by five of the Luftwaffe’s iconic Me262 pilots:
Major Erick Rudorffer
Oberleutnant Walter Schuck
Major Hans-Ekkehard Bob
Feldwebel Ernst Giefing
Leutnant Norbert Hanning
25 ARTIST PROOFS ~ $565
With all the components of the Pilots Edition the
main print in the strictly limited Artists Proofs
are additionally signed by two USAAF Fighter Pilots
who scored victories over German jets,
creating an outstanding FOURTEEN signature edition:
Major General Edward Giller
Captain Clayton "Kelly" Gross
Print Size: 34 3/4” x 24 3/4”
Undaunted by Odds
Hurricane Mk1s of 303 "Koœciuszko" Polish Squadron
RAF climb steadily out from
Northolt to intercept yet another incoming Luftwaffe
bomber formation heading for London
in September 1940. Ably led by Canadian Flight Commander,
Flt Lt Johnny Kent, the
battle-hardened Polish pilots will soon be engaging
the enemy over Southern England,
their Hurricanes once again in the thick of the action.
On 6 November 1935, a prototype aircraft took to the
air for the very first time. As
Sydney Camm’s sturdy, single-engined monoplane fighter
climbed into the sky, few
realized that it was destined to become one of the
enduring symbols of the greatest air
battle ever fought. Its name was the Hawker Hurricane.
250 Limited Edition ~ $320
Each print has been individually numbered and hand-signed
by artist Robert Taylor
along with THREE RAF pilots who flew with the Polish
Squadrons during World War II:
Squadron Leader Jurek Mencel DFC KM*** AFM***
Flight Lieutenant Stanislaw Nawarski DFC KM
Pilot Officer Stefan Ryll AFM*
400 Hurricane Veterans' Edition ~ $365
25 Artist Proofs ~ $595
This TEN signature edition is also signed by a further
seven pilots that flew the Hurricane
on active duty during WWII.
Flight Lieutenant Jack Biggs
Flying Officer John Byrne
Warrant Officer Eric Carter
Flying Officer Ken Cockram
Squadron Leader Frank ‘Dimmy’ Joyce
Flight Lieutenant Hugh Parry
Flight Lieutenant Kurt Taussig
150 Battle of Britain Tribute Edition ~ $635
With all the components of the Hurricane Veterans’
Edition, the print has been additionally
signed by a Battle of Britain Hurricane pilot and
is issued with an exclusive, matching
numbered companion drawing DEADLY ENCOUNTER which
is signed by a further five
pilots who flew Hurricanes during the Battle of Britain,
creating a SIXTEEN signature
tribute!
Wing Commander Peter Ayerst DFC
The companion print is signed by:
Wing Commander Tim Elkington
Air Commodore John Ellacombe
Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC
Wing Commander Tom Neil DFC* AFC
Wing Commander Tony Pickering
Print Size: 34 7/8” x 24”
The Hard Way Home
The Battle of Britain had been won by the young fighter
pilots of
Fighter Command, but now it fell to another band of
young men to
wage total warfare against the Nazi war machine –
the aircrew of
RAF Bomber Command. A lone Halifax of 405 Sqn RCAF
struggles
home the hard way – damaged and alone. One of the
aircraft’s engines
is already out and another is smoking badly as the
exhausted pilot
and his crew fight to keep their unwieldy bomber airborne.
Any
marauding Luftwaffe fighters would have found them
easy prey,
but fortunately they have been spotted by a formation
of Hurricanes
from 253 Sqn on a routine patrol. For that final leg
of their long
journey this crew will at last have protection to
see them safely back
to base.
400 LIMITED EDITION ~ $320
Each print in the FOUR signature Limited Edition is
personally signed by
artist Robert Taylor, and individually hand-numbered;
together with
TWO RAF aircrew who flew Halifaxes during WWII, and
TWO
Hurricane fighter pilots.
Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC – Rear Gunner / 158
Sqn
Warrant Officer Laurie Godfrey – WOP/Air Gunner /
408sqn
Warrant Officer Eric Carter – Hurricane Pilot / 615
sqn
Lieutenant Stanislaw Nawarski DFC KM – Hurricane Pilot
/ 302 sqn
250 COLLECTORS’ EDITION ~ $495
The TWENTY ONE signature Collectors’ Edition has been
additionally
signed by the twelve RAF aircrew who flew Halifaxes
with RAF Bomber
Command, and four Hurricane fighter pilots who flew
escort with RAF
Fighter Command:
Flying Officer Tom Sayer DFM – Halifax Pilot / 102
Sqn
Squadron Leader Frank Williamson AFC – Halifax Pilot
/ 102 Sqn
Flight Lieutenant “Bluey” Mottershead DFC – Halifax
Pilot / 158 Sqn
Warrant Officer John Morrison – Rear Gunner / 35 Sqn
Flying Officer Frank Walker – Rear Gunner / 466 Sqn
Flying Officer Len McNamara DFC – Rear Gunner / 158
Sqn
Warrant Officer Fred Maltas – Flight Engineer / 35
Sqn
Warrant Officer Reg Cleaver – Flight Engineer / 419
Sqn RCAF
Warrant Officer Harry Gough – Rear Gunner / 10 Sqn
Flying Officer John Evans – Halifax Pilot / 158 Sqn
Warrant Officer Sam Thompson – Mid Upper Gunner /
103 sqn
Flight Lieutenant Matt Holiday DFC – Mid Upper Gunner
/ 10 sqn
Warrant Officer William Bell – Navigator / 103 Sqn
Flight Lieutenant Kurt Taussig – Hurricane Pilot /
225 Sqn
Wing Commander John ‘Tim’ Elkington – Hurricane Pilot
/ 134 Sqn
Wing Commander Tom Neil DFC AFC AE – Hurricane Pilot
/ 259 Sqn
Pilot Officer Stefan Ryll – Hurricane Pilot / 306
Sqn
Print Size: 35¼” x 23¼”
Air Armada - The Hardest Days
Robert Taylor’s magnificent masterwork, Air Armada,
recreates
a moment on that day as Heinz Bär, the Luftwaffe’s
top-scoring
NCO Ace of the Battle of Britain and one of the greatest
Aces
in history, climbs away from his airfield near Calais
with the
other pilots of 1./JG51 to escort the Do17s of KG76
for yet another
deadly attack on the RAF. Away in the distance, Me110s
from
EPRG 210 also prepare to join the epic encounters
that lie ahead.
First edition in Robert Taylor's trilogy to commemorate
the 70th
Anniversary of the Battle of Britain
450 Limited Edition ~ $320
Signed by:
Oberst Hajo Herrmann
Major Hans-Ekkehard Bob
350 Anniversary Edition ~ $395
Signed by:
Major Erich Rudorffer
Generalleutnant Gunther Rall
Oberleutnant Heinrich Sudel
Oberst Hajo Herrmann
Major Hans-Ekkehard Bob
Print Size: 33” wide x 25¼” high
Where Eagles Gathered
Robert Taylor's new volume of Air Combat Paintings
featuring an
exclusive Limited Edition Print. On 5 March 1944 the
B-24 bombers
of the 448th Bomb Group took off from England, their
mission - to
destroy the Luftwaffe facilities at Limoges aerodrome
in western
France. But waiting for them were the Bf-109s of JG2,
ready to rip
into the attacking force at the first opportunity.
Luckily for the bomber
crews they had one of the finest fighter escorts in
the Mighty Eighth,
Don Blakeslee’s 4th Fighter Group – 'The Eagles'.
As a straggling
B-24 comes under attack and its inner starboard engine
starts to trail
smoke, Steve Pisanos, one of the Fourth’s most deadly
Aces, and fellow
P-51B pilots quickly arrive on the scene to break
up the attack. The
Liberator now has a chance to get home.
Each print is accompanied by a special edition copy
of the Vol V book
with the USAAF cover, numbered and personally signed
by Robert Taylor
and presented in a gold embossed slip case. All of
the prints of WHERE
THE EAGLES GATHERED are signed by two oustanding Fighter
Pilots
from this aerial conflict.
600 Limited Edition ~ $235
Signed by:
Colonel Seve Pisanos
Hauptmann Gunther Nordenholz
25 Artist Proofs ~ $375
Signed by:
Colonel Seve Pisanos
Hauptmann Gunther Nordenholz
Opening Sky
With the morning sun glinting on their fuselages, P-51
Mustangs
of the 78th Fighter Group cross the Dutch coastline
far below, heading
back towards their base at Duxford, England at the
end of a long sweep
east of the Rhine crossing in Spring 1945. The final
months of the war
in Europe lie ahead, and for the P-51 pilots the victory
is within sight.
Robert Taylor’s visually poetic masterpiece, Opening
Sky, pays tribute
to the American P-51 Mustang fighter pilots who flew
and fought for
freedom during World War II, and is the third in his
highly successful
Tribute Series. It follows the release of his popular
RAF Hurricane tribute,
Height and Sun; and Luftwaffe Me109 tribute Dawn Eagles
Rising.
300 Limited Edition ~ $195
Signed by:
Colonel Clarance ‘Bud’ Anderson - 357th FG / 16.25
victories
Lieutenant Colonel Clyde East - 10th Photo Recon Group
/ 14.5 victories
Colonel Art Fiedler - 325th FG / 8 victories
Print Size: 27 1/2” x 17”
Phantom Fury
The biggest, fastest, most powerful fighter of its
day, the McDonnell
Phantom was an awesome war machine that came to dominate
aerial
combat for over two decades. It may have been the
size of many World
War II bombers but it could out-perform anything that
crossed its path;
it was quicker, could turn faster, was better equipped
with electronics,
carried more ordnance than anything comparable, and
it had an unbelievable
rate of climb. The F-4 Phantom was the benchmark against
which every
fighter in the world came to be judged; it was simply
the best. Robert
Taylor’s powerful new painting shows Steve Ritchie,
first into action,
flying his lead F-4D Phantom through a hail of deadly
enemy flak as he
exits the target area after a typical FAST FAC mission
on enemy
installations in North Vietnam, 1972. Behind him a
vast trail of
devastation marks the mission’s progress, as his fellow
Phantom
crews continue to wreak havoc with their heavy ordnance,
the target
area exploding in a series of mighty detonations.
750 Limited Edition ~ $320
50 Artist Proofs ~ $520
Signed by:
Brigadier General Richard "Steve" Ritchie
Captain John Madden
Print Size: 34½” x 23½”
Out of Night - First To Go In
Silently out of the night they came. With flaps deployed,
three timber
and plywood Horsa gliders swept swiftly down through
the night skies,
rapidly closing with their objective – Pegasus Bridge
over the Caen
Canal. On board, with tension etched deep into their
blackened faces,
men from the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light
Infantry, part
of the British 6th Airborne Division, braced themselves
for landing.
They, and sappers from the Royal Engineers, were about
to become the
first fighting force to land in France on D-Day. They
were about to make
history. This new graphite collectors edition is personally
signed by
veterans who fought in the epic encounter at Pegasus
Bridge, assaulted
the beaches and one of the six Halifax pilots who
towed the gliders into
action on that momentous night.
300 Limited Editions ~ $135
Signed by:
Private Alf Whitbread
Private Billy Gray
200 D Day Editions ~ $190
Signed by above plus:
Private Frank Bourlet
Sergeant Peter ‘Rocky’ Bright
Private Stan Watson
Craftsman ROY BISHOP
Gunner Ernie Brewer L.d.Hon
Lance Corporal Harry Hopkins
Private Frank Sankey
Squadron Leader John Fisher DFC (USA)
Print Size: 25 1/2" x 21 1/2
Dambusters - Inbound to Target
The crews of 617 Squadron that took part in the epic
Dambusters raid
on the night of 16/17 May 1943 were among the finest
in the RAF. They
were the elite of Bomber Command, and when they left
RAF Scampton
that night, the skills of their pilots – some of the
finest of the Second
World War, would be tested to the limit. In this outstanding
new work
Flight Lieutenant ‘Mick’ Martin, in company with Flight
Lieutenant
John Hopgood in the distance, follows one of the many
canals of Holland,
wingtips barely missing the sails of the windmills,
en-route to the Möhne Dam.
Delicately crafted in a subtle, unique blend of pencil
and paint, Robert's latest
masterpiece is a truly stunning and highly individual
rendition of this most
famous mission. Printed on the latest precision press,
each of these exclusive
limited edition prints is a true and faithful reproduction
of his masterful original.
225 Limited Edition ~ $195
Sergeant Ray Grayston RAF
Flight Engineer in Lancaster AJ-N – they breached
the Eder Dam.
Squadron Leader George Johnson DFM RAF
Bomb Aimer on Lancaster AJ-T – they attacked the Sorpe
Dam.
Corporal Kenneth Lucas RAF
Ground crew technician who worked on the Dambuster
Lancasters.
Flight Sergeant Grant McDonald RCAF
Rear Gunner in Lancaster AJ-F – they attacked the
Sorpe Dam.
Squadron Leader Les Munto DSO DFC RNZAF
Captain and pilot of Lancaster AJ-W, one of Gibson’s
three flight commanders, assigned to attack the Sorpe Dam.
Sergeant Fred Sutherland RCAF
Front Gunner in Lancaster AJ-N – they breached the
Eder Dam.
Print Size: 21 1/2" x 14 1/2"
