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Throughout August 1940 the second phase of the Battle of Britain was in full swing as the Luftwaffe turned their full attention to the destruction of Fighter Command’s 11 Group airfields. The summer skies over Kent and the south-east of England saw the young RAF fighter pilots in almost continuous action as they sought to repel Goering’s raiders. But, by October, Fighter...
HUNTERS OVER THE CHANNEL – THE LUFTWAFFE
OUT OF THE BLUE
Original oil on canvas by Anthony Saunders
As part of the force...
Operating from an ex-Luftwaffe base at Culot in Belgium, the Johnnie Johnson Canadian Wing were in combat most days the weather permitted. The Luftwaffe had staged a remarkable recovery after its Normandy defeat and by September 1944 was at operating strength from airfields east of the Rhine. Big formations of Fw190 and Me109 fighters were pitting themselves against the RAF’s ground...
- A TRIBUTE TO THE MEN OF RAF FIGHTER COMMAND -
The Battle of Britain ‘officially’ ended on 30 October 1940 and the Luftwaffe’s attempt to eradicate Fighter Command had ended in failure. Winston Churchill’s famous ‘Few’ had defended Britain in a long series of intense...
For two years following the Italian Declaration of War against Britain in the summer of 1940, the tiny island of Malta became one of the most heavily bombed places on earth as the Axis air forces fought to force it into surrender. They hadn’t reckoned on the island’s resolve.
German High Command had long recognised that control of Malta, with its naval dockyards and RAF...
JANUARY 1945: If the Allies had air superiority, nobody had told the determined pilots of the Luftwaffe, because the skies over Germany were both dangerous and deadly.
Robert’s iconic scene depicts a dramatic clash between the USAAF and the Luftwaffe high over the Rhineland. P-51 Mustangs of the 357th Fighter Group, escorting a heavy bomber raid deep into enemy territory, have...
Released on the 100th Anniversary of the RAF as a tribute to all those who flew the Spitfire!
When the Luftwaffe unleashed the Fw190, the unsuspecting Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command were at serious disadvantage – but it wasn’t for long!
Under clear skies, a light breeze from the south-west blew across the...
The fourth release in this blockbuster series by the world's most widely collected Aviation Artist
It isn’t often that a new series has had such an immediate impact as Robert Taylor’s Icons of Flight, with each of the three previous releases selling out within days of...
Robert Taylor's comprehensive work Eagles on the Channel Front , the fourth and final print in his widely acclaimed "Wings of the Luftwaffe" series, recreates a scene in northern France in the late autumn of 1941. Having just returned to their temporary airstrip in the region of St. Omer, Luftwaffe pilots of JG-26 excitedly debrief their recent encounter with Spitfires and...
A Schwarm of Bf109s from JG-52 are about to peel away and, with the battle-cry ‘Horrido!’ ringing in their ears, dive to attack the flight of enemy aircraft spotted below.
JG-52: the name alone brought terror into the hearts of the Red Air Force pilots. By the end of the war the Luftwaffe’s most successful Geschwader had claimed over 10,000 victories, and from...
