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Cloud Companions by Robert Taylor.
A Lancaster has been damaged and is left far behind the main force to make its own perilous way home as best it can. Seeing the vulnerability of their friends, a Mosquito crew expose themselves to the same dangers, and throttle back to stay alongside the injured warbird. Dawn has broken, the visibility is unlimited. They have yet to make that Channel crossing and enemy fighters are in the area. The crew of the Lancaster struggle to maintain flying speed and enough height to bring their large four-engined aircraft home. Perhaps tonight they will all drink and laugh in the local pub - perhaps! Meanwhile the drama unfolds: Dawn has broken, the visibility is unlimited. They have yet to make that Channel crossing and enemy fighters are in the area. The crew of the Lancaster struggle to maintain flying speed and enough height to bring their large four engine aircraft home. Robert Taylor conveys the desperate urgency of the situation with masterful strokes of his brush, providing an imag.........
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| | Item Code : DHM2083 | Cloud Companions by Robert Taylor. - Editions Available | |
| | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | PACKS | | Signed limited edition of 1250 prints. | Paper size 33 inches x 29 inches (84cm x 74cm) |
Reid, Bill | | Flight Lieutenant Bill Reid VC (deceased) |
| Volunteering for RAF aircrew in 1940, Bill Reid learned to fly in California, training on the Stearman, Vultee and Harvard. After gaining his pilots wings back in England he flew Wellingtons before moving on to Lancasters in 1943. On the night of Nov 3rd 1943, his Lancaster suffered two severe attacks from Luftwaffe night fighters, badly wounding Reid, killing his navigator and radio operator, and severely damaging the aircraft. Bill flew on 200 miles to accurately bomb the target and get his |
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Coney, Fred | | Fred Coney served with No.15 Sqn out of RAF Mildenhall during 1943 and 1944, including two ops on D-Day. He was the honorary chairman of the Mildenhall Registrar. He passed away in 2010. |
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Costello, John
Hammersley, Roly
Sims, Lyndon | | Enlisted 1940 as a flight mechanic in the Royal Air Force and commissioned 1943, joined as a bomber Pilot with No.75 (New Zealand) Squadron. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, gazetted on 13th October 1944. After the war he became a successful rally driver, making his debut in the early 1950s driving a 2.4-litre Riley Pathfinder in which he took part in the Rallye de Monte-Carlo in 1954 co-driven by William Rogers, finishing 20th. That same year he finished seventh in the 6 Hour R |
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Sumpter, Len | | Leonard Joseph Sumpter was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, on 20th September 1911, the son of Joseph and Mary Ann Sumpter. He had already served two stints in the Grenadier Guards before transferring to the RAF in 1941. He had joined the army as a boy soldier in 1928 and left again in 1931. He rejoined his old regiment at the outbreak of war but then in 1941 he persuaded his superiors to let him transfer to the RAF. After training in England and Canada, he was posted to No.57 Squadron at |
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Wing, Howie
+ Artist : Robert Taylor | | SOLD
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AVAILABLE | | | Limited edition of 125 artist proofs. | Paper size 33 inches x 29 inches (84cm x 74cm) |
Reid, Bill | | Flight Lieutenant Bill Reid VC (deceased) |
| Volunteering for RAF aircrew in 1940, Bill Reid learned to fly in California, training on the Stearman, Vultee and Harvard. After gaining his pilots wings back in England he flew Wellingtons before moving on to Lancasters in 1943. On the night of Nov 3rd 1943, his Lancaster suffered two severe attacks from Luftwaffe night fighters, badly wounding Reid, killing his navigator and radio operator, and severely damaging the aircraft. Bill flew on 200 miles to accurately bomb the target and get his |
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Coney, Fred | | Fred Coney served with No.15 Sqn out of RAF Mildenhall during 1943 and 1944, including two ops on D-Day. He was the honorary chairman of the Mildenhall Registrar. He passed away in 2010. |
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Costello, John
Hammersley, Roly
Sims, Lyndon | | Enlisted 1940 as a flight mechanic in the Royal Air Force and commissioned 1943, joined as a bomber Pilot with No.75 (New Zealand) Squadron. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, gazetted on 13th October 1944. After the war he became a successful rally driver, making his debut in the early 1950s driving a 2.4-litre Riley Pathfinder in which he took part in the Rallye de Monte-Carlo in 1954 co-driven by William Rogers, finishing 20th. That same year he finished seventh in the 6 Hour R |
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Sumpter, Len | | Leonard Joseph Sumpter was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, on 20th September 1911, the son of Joseph and Mary Ann Sumpter. He had already served two stints in the Grenadier Guards before transferring to the RAF in 1941. He had joined the army as a boy soldier in 1928 and left again in 1931. He rejoined his old regiment at the outbreak of war but then in 1941 he persuaded his superiors to let him transfer to the RAF. After training in England and Canada, he was posted to No.57 Squadron at |
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Wing, Howie
+ Artist : Robert Taylor | | SOLD
OUT | NOT
AVAILABLE | |
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