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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...
Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain 1940 – 2020
From the day they’d moved down from Scotland in early August, 602 Squadron had been in the front line of the air fighting over southern England, bearing the brunt of the Luftwaffe’s increasing attacks. Based at Westhampnett, a satellite of nearby...
Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain
Just 2,936 fighter pilots and aircrew flew against the mighty Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and were entitled to wear the rare ‘Battle of Britain Clasp’ to their war medal. To earn that right and become one of ‘The Few’, they had to fly at...
All the great Luftwaffe Aces flew the Me109. Most achieved their phenomenal aerial successes in this supreme little fighter, and it is this beautiful aircraft that Robert Taylor has chosen for this painting to pay respect to this unique band of air Aces. In the foreground the Staffel Commander is viewed leading the attack, his cannons blazing as he closes on a formation of...
Anthony’s atmospheric painting depicts a definitive moment in late August 1940 as the Mk.I Spitfires of 610 Squadron, one of the units to bear the full brunt of the Luftwaffe’s attacks, scramble away from their base at Biggin Hill towards the Channel where yet another incoming Luftwaffe formation has been spotted. Combining great skill with thoughtful insight, Anthony...
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...
TUESDAY 17 AUGUST 1943
Exactly a year after the Eighth Air Force had completed its first ‘official’ mission of the war, 17 August 1943 saw them undertake their most ambitious raid to date – a two-pronged ‘double strike’ deep into the heart of Bavaria. The Eighth’s B-17s were going deeper into the Reich than ever before and, like the raid on...
Though undoubtedly one of the Luftwaffe’s great fighter leaders, Günther Lützow is probably best remembered for confronting Hermann Goering at the famous “Wing Commanders Conference” held in Berlin in January 1945.
Called to Goering’s meeting of high ranking fighter staff to air their grievances, the fearless Lützow didn’t hesitate to lay...
Dominating the skies over Germany, P-51s of the 4th Fighter Group – The Eagles - sweep across the cloud tops, their pilots scanning the distant horizon for any signs of the Luftwaffe. They are ready for trouble should the enemy decide to chance their luck.
The oldest fighter unit in the 8th Air Force, the 4th Fighter Group were the first to penetrate German air space, and...
The Battle of Britain began at the beginning of July, 1940 and during the next two and a half months, at the height of a glorious English summer, the RAF and the Luftwaffe fought what was to become the greatest aerial conflict in history.
In Robert's stunning piece a Luftwaffe pilot, one of many RAF victories on that brilliant summer morning, stands beside his downed Me109...
