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" The crews of Bomber Command faced one of the most daunting tasks, calling for courage sustained night after night, in conditions of desperate danger and discomfort. They did not fail us and 55,573 paid the supreme sacrifice ."
- H.R.H. The Duke of Kent
This evocative piece recreates a typical scene encountered by many RAF bomber squadrons on raids...
Once the largest and most powerful cruiser in the Royal Navy, HMS Belfast fought throughout World War II. As part of the Home Fleet based in Scapa Flow she took part in the Arctic convoys and, on Boxing Day 1943, fought with distinction in the Battle of North Cape, playing a pivotal part in the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst. In June 1944 she was off the coast of Normandy...
Robert Taylor's final painting in his 60th Anniversary trilogy features a scene from the attacks on the afternoon of September 7, 1940.
Led by Herbert Ihlefeld, Me109E's of II/JG2 dive through the bomber formation giving chase to Hurricanes of 242 Squadron as Ju88s of KG30, having unloaded their bombs, head for home. One Ju88 has been hit and is already losing height, and will not...
The Bismarck 21 May 1941
As Me109s from 3./JG77, and Me110s from ZG76, provide aerial cover, the pride of the Kriegsmarine - the battleship Bismarck - together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen , destroyers Z10 Hans Lody (left) and Z16 Friedrich Eckholdt (right), and a supporting escort fleet break out from Norwegian waters into...
On Sunday 17 September 1944, the first day of Operation Market Garden, C-47 Dakotas of the 439th Troop Carrier Group dropped thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions into Holland, a hundred and fifty miles behind enemy lines. This daring operation, the largest airborne assault of World War II, aimed to capture and secure vital bridges in the Allies’ push towards...
Duxford became home of the 78th Fighter Group when they arrives in England with their P-47B Thunderbolts in 1943. The objective of the American fighter units was to gain air superiority over the Luftwaffe in support of their daylight bombing campaign. By the end of 1944 they achieved their objective.
It is the spring of 1944, and with the Normandy invasion just days away,...
Erich Hartmann in his Me109 closes in to within 100 metres of a Russian Ilyushin II, one of his many close encounters high over the Eastern Front.
One name stands out above all others in the annals of air fighting – Erich Hartmann. His prowess in combat became legend even before the course of WWII was run. His 352 aerial victories is a record that is never likely to be...
Robert Taylor’s atmospheric piece depicts a flight of rugged P-47 Thunderbolts - Razorbacks of the 404th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force.
Ground-attack pilots went in low, did the job and got our fast! Having cleared the target area on a low-level attack on an airfield inland from Havre, Normandy, 1944, tracer rounds from ground defences can be seen...
In the months that followed Dunkirk, the RAF stood alone against the might of the Luftwaffe and the massed forces of Germany preparing to invade Britain. While America anxiously watched events, some 240 pilots made their way to England to join the RAF in their herculean struggle against the overwhelming odds.
Motivated by the urge to fight for the cause of freedom, a swashbuckling...
"You have a rendezvous with destiny!" – promised Major Gen William Lee to his men as the 101st Airborne Division was activated at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, 15 August 1942. And the first place they kept that rendezvous was Normandy…
At precisely 23.00 hours on the night of 5 June 1944, aircraft containing the men of Easy Company, 506th Parachute...
