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Adolf Galland scrambles a flight of Me262 jets to meet an in-coming USAAF heavy bomber raid, during the final stages of the Battle for Germany.
The legend of Willie Messerschmitts Me262, and the elite fighter Aces who piloted this revolutionary jet aircraft, is as secure as any born during the Second World War. As they hurtled into the air, climbing at speeds hitherto...
Me109’s from 1./JG51 and Spitfires of 54 Squadron clash head-on over Kent as the unit dives into a formation of Me110s from KPRG210. It is 54 Squadron’s third and final sortie of the day, early evening on Sunday 18 August 1940, at the end of the hardest week of fighting during the Battle of Britain. In the distance a group of Hurricanes tear in to a formation of Do17s from KG76 as they too...
‘The Americans gave us the best they had, and they gave us everything we needed as and when the need arose….. they were the bravest of the brave, and I know that I am speaking for my own bomber crews when I pay this tribute.
MRAF Sir Arthur Harris
Through bitter experience and heavy losses, RAF Bomber...
'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, 20th August 1940
The Battle of Britain is remembered as one of the greatest aerial conflicts in aviation history. Despite being fiercely outnumbered, the valiant young pilots of RAF Fighter Command duelled with the cream...
German High Command had long recognised that control of Malta, with its naval dockyards and RAF airfields, was pivotal to safeguarding Rommel’s entire North African campaign. Control of the island was essential to protect the convoys that supplied Rommel’s desert forces and the Germans and Italians decided to bomb the island into oblivion, starve it, and force it to...
High over the Rhineland, this dramatic clash between P-51s of the Mighty Eighth and a strong force of Bf109s took place in January 1945.
Despite their failed attempt to seize the initiative during the Battle of the Bulge, by January 1945 it was obvious to all but the diehard Nazis that Germany would lose the war, and day after day, night after night, the Allied air forces had...
In 1992 the Military Gallery published what was to become one of Robert Taylor’s most iconic paintings - Knights of the Eastern Front. It was a landmark in his distinguished career and became a benchmark for the aviation art industry. The painting, with its trademark...
During the height of the Battle of Britain, Spitfires of 92 Squadron engage Messerschmitt Me109s of JG-2 in a high-altitude dog-fight directly over London in September 1940. Far below them, bombers of the Luftwaffe attempt one of their final daylight raids over the capital.
Released in 1990, Robert's print now proves extremely difficult to find on the Secondary Market, and...
A flak damaged B-17 Fortress sheds debris as it struggles to keep up with the Group; B-24 Liberators have joined the formation as they approach the Belgian coast, and a P-51, low on fuel, provides escort for the North Sea crossing. The U.S. 8th Air Force, its mission almost complete, is coming home.
In three years of continual combat, the bomber crews of the USAAF faced enormous...
Colonel ‘Hub’ Zemke and a flight of P-47s from his ‘Wolfpack’, the 56th Fighter Group, are engaged by the Bf109s of Major Günther Rall’s II./JG11 high above northern Germany, 12 May 1944.
It was rare that famous Aces met face-to-face in combat but on 12 May 1944 it happened high over northern Germany. It wasn’t often that...
