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First Strike on Berlin by Nicolas Trudgian.
The first successful daylight raid on Berlin. Nicolas Trudgians painting relives
the fearsome aerial combat on March 6, 1944, as B-17 Flying Fortresses of the
100th B.G. are attacked. Screaming in head-on, Fw190s of II./JG I charge into
the bomber stream. With throttles wide open, 56th Fighter Group P-47
Thunderbolts come hurtling down to intercept. B-17 gunners are working overtime,
the air is full of cordite, smoke, jagged pieces of flying metal and hot lead.
We are in the midst of one of the fiercest aerial battles of the war. |
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First Strike on Berlin by Nicolas Trudgian.
The first successful daylight raid on Berlin. Nicolas Trudgians painting relives the fearsome aerial combat on March 6, 1944, as B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 100th B.G. are attacked. Screaming in head-on, Fw190s of II./JG I charge into the bomber stream. With throttles wide open, 56th Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolts come hurtling down to intercept. B-17 gunners are working overtime, the air is full of cordite, smoke, jagged pieces of flying metal and hot lead. We are in the midst of one of the fiercest aerial battles of the war.
Signed limited edition of 600 prints. Paper size 35 inches x 24 inches (89cm x 61cm). Price £160.00 Signed by Colonel Morton Magoffin (deceased), Captain C B Red Harper and First Lieutenant Ed McKay, in addition to the artist.
Limited edition of 60 artist proofs. Paper size 35 inches x 24 inches (89cm x 61cm). Price £200.00 Signed by Colonel Morton Magoffin (deceased), Captain C B Red Harper and First Lieutenant Ed McKay, in addition to the artist.
Limited edition of publishers proofs. Paper size 35 inches x 24 inches (89cm x 61cm). Price £200.00 Signed by Colonel Morton Magoffin (deceased), Captain C B Red Harper and First Lieutenant Ed McKay, in addition to the artist.
Limited edition of 60 artist special reserve prints, signed by the artist only. Paper size 35 inches x 24 inches (89cm x 61cm). Price £125.00
ITEM CODE DHM2057
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First Strike on Berlin by Nicolas Trudgian
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 | Colonel Morton Magoffin (deceased)
Morton Magoffin went to West Point in 1933 to be trained as a soldier, but preferred to be a flyer instead, graduating for the Service in 1937. Serving first with the 94th Pursuit Squadron, in April 1941 he was posted to jom the 15th Pursuit Group as Squadron Commander in Hawaii, and was present at the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Posted to Europe, Mort arrived in England in November 1943. Group Commander of the 362nd FG - the first P-47 Group m the 9th Air Force based at Wormingford. In addition to the regular search and destroy missions of the 9th, Mort took part in the early March escort missions to Berlin. On August 10, he was shot down and wounded by flak near Falaise, luckily being liberated from a Paris hospital by the Allies a few days later. Mort was an Ace with 5 victories in World War II. Sadly, he passed away on 9th July 2007.
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 | Captain C B Red Harper
Red Harper joined up in late 1940 and after training was posted to the 350th Squadron, 100th BG. Based at Thorpe Abbotts flying the |B-17 Flying Fortress, he flew his first combat mission on February 28, 1944. Red flew with the Bloody One Hundredth on the first |successful daylight mission to Berlin - March 6, 1 1944, just one of his 35 combat missions.
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 | First Lieutenant Ed McKay
Ed joined the US Marine Corps in 1937, but transferred to the Air Force in November 1941. Posted to the 350th Squadron of the 100th BG, Ed flew his first combat mission in January 1944 in the B-17, and on March 3 took part in the recalled raid to Berlin. Flymg his regular plane Alice from Dallas II, his gunners claimed three fighters en-route. On March 6, they again went to Berlin, this time successfully Ed served in both the European and Mediterranean theaters, and flew the B-29 at the end of the war.
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