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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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CHARLES E. ?CHUCK' YEAGER - Book & Print Portfolio
Following the theme of previous releases in his ground-breaking series, a detailed drawing titled Escort Duty forms the centrepiece of this highly-restricted new compilation; it features Yeager's most famous P-51 'Glamorous Glen III', the mount in which he scored most of his World War II victories, including the five Bf109s shot down in a single mission on 12 October 1944 and the four Fw190s downed on 27 November 1944. Matted alongside is a second, completely separate drawing titled Breaking the Barrier which features Yeager's Bell X-IA rocket plane moments into its record-breaking journey.
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CHECKERTAILS - OUTBOUND ESCORT
Robert Taylor, the world's most instantly-recognisable aviation artist, remembers the heroic exploits of the men who flew with the 325th Fighter Group in his iconic piece. Few painters have the necessary skill to successfully blend the machines of war into beautiful landscapes as Robert, and his breath-taking work Checkertails - Outbound Escort is a classic example of just why he's considered the greatest ever aviation artist.
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CHECKERTAILS - OUTBOUND ESCORT - The Legacy Remarques
Few painters have the necessary skill to successfully blend the machines of war into beautiful landscapes as Robert, and his breathtaking work Checkertails - Outbound Escort is a classic example of just why he's considered the greatest ever aviation artist.
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CHECKING OUT
In this pair of eye-catching pieces, Anthony Saunders has chosen P-51s of the Mighty Eighth's 352nd Fighter Group to represent all those who flew Mustangs so heroically with the US 8th Air Force from England during WWII. In the first, Checking Out, the bad weather that has dogged the past few days is thankfully clearing, allowing the Group to begin their dispersal from Bodney to take part in an escort mission in early 1945. In the second, Beyond the Storm, the bad weather is, however, once again closing in as Captain Ray Littge, flying his P-51D Miss Helen, leads the 487th Fighter Squadron back home over the familiar Suffolk coastline in April 1945.
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CHRISTMAS TRUCE
Completed in Richard's 'trademark' style of graphite, wash and coloured highlights on antique buff paper, this atmospheric piece serves as a lasting tribute to all those who fought in the trenches during the Great War.
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CLASH OF EAGLES
Released as a pair with A WELCOME RETURN, Anthony Saunders' new painting, CLASH OF EAGLES, features P-51 Mustangs of the 20th Fighter Group, flying out of Kings Cliffe to engage Me109's from JG77 in a furiously contested dogfight. Below them a formation of B-17's from the 379th Bomb Group fly through the chaos, doggedly maintaining their course, as they head on to attack the huge synthetic oil refinery at Meresburg, southern Germany, on 11 September 1944. So vital was this refinery to the Nazi war machine that it became one of the most heavily defended targets in Germany, the air defences even surpassing those of Berlin.
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CLASH OVER BRAMSCHE
Skilfully thwarting the
determined efforts of P-51 escort fighters,
Major Walter Nowotny, flying his Me262 A-1A
'White 8', successfully attacks a B-24
Liberator from the USAAF 392nd Bomb Group
high over the town of Bramsche, Lower Saxony,
7 October 1944.
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