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Mirage
III. Royal Australian Air Force Mirage III
of 75 Squadron and 77 Squadron and P40 Warhawks of 3 Squadron in aviation
art prints by Michael Rondot and Robert Taylor. Available from
aviationprints.co.uk, subsidiary of Cranston Fine Arts.
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| Magpies Over Baghdad by Michael Rondot (AP) During February 2003, fourteen RAAF F/A-18 Hornets flew to Al Udeid airbase in Qatar for air operations over Iraq as part of Operation Falconer. This was the first overseas deployment of Australian fighter aircraft for combat operations since July 1953 when RAAF Meteor F8s flew their last ground attack missions of the Korean War. The Australians were airborne from the start of the airstrikes on 20th March and continued in the thick of the action of the air campaign until the end of combat operations on 27th April, by which time they had flown 350 combat missions and dropped 122 laser guided bombs. Their missions ranged from air defence to interdiction and close air support and included operations with Australian SAS and Commando forces, as well as numerous missions flown in support of US Marines involved in fierce street fighting around Baghdad and Tikrit. The Hornets returned to Australia in May after one of the most successful combat deployments in the history of the RAAF. Limited edition of 40 artist proofs. Image size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm). Price £120.00
Limited edition of 25 remarques. Image size 27 inches x 20 inches (69cm x 51cm). Price £
Limited edition of 10 giclee canvas prints. Image size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £400.00
ITEM CODE MR0062 |
| Captain Arthur Henry Cobby by Ivan Berryman. Arriving in France in 1917 with little or no air gunnery training behind him, Captain Arthur Harry Cobby went on to become the Australian Flying Corps highest scoring ace with 29 victories to his credit, five of them observation balloons. He is shown here in Sopwith Camel E1416 of 4 Sqn AFC (formerly 71 Sqn AFC) having downed one of his final victims, a Fokker D.VII on 4th September 1918. Cobby survived the Great War and served in the RAAF during the inter war period and World War Two, eventually leaving the service as Air Commodore CBE. He died in 1955. Signed limited edition of 20 giclee paper prints. Image size 26 inches x 17 inches (66cm x 43cm). Price £150.00  Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 10 artist proofs. Image size 26 inches x 17 inches (66cm x 43cm). Price £180.00 Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Small limited edition of 15 artist proofs. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £70.00 Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Save £5 on selected prints - Was £75
Small limited edition of 50 prints. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £51.00 Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Save £5 on selected prints - Was £56
Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. Size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm). Price £480.00 £110 Off Selected Giclee Canvas Prints - Was £590
Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. Size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £370.00 £90 Off Selected Giclee Canvas Prints - Was £460
Original painting, oil on canvas by Ivan Berryman. Size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £3400.00
Remarque edition - limited edition of 10 giclee prints featuring an original pencil remarque. Image size 26 inches x 17 inches (66cm x 43cm) plus border with text and remarque drawing.. Price £350.00
ITEM CODE DHM1783 |
| Spitfires Over Darwin by Robert Taylor. Mark Vc tropicalized Spitfires of No 1 wing RAAF returning from a Scramble over the city of Darwin in early 1943. The bombing of Darwin by Japanese aircraft shortly before 10:00 am on the morning of February 19, 1942, brought the northern region of Australia directly into the war in the South Pacific. The surprise attack caught the Royal Australian Air Force with only a handful of Wirraway trainers and a squadron of Hudson twin-engine bombers to defend the Northern Territories, and a Japanese invasion looked a possibility. Fortunately the USAAF 49th Group were transiting through Darwin at the time, en route to Java and, flying their P-40E fighters, they were able to hold the line until 77 Squadron Kittyhawks arrived to defend the Top End in the latter part of 1942. At the time Australias only Spitfire squadrons were operating successfully in Europe as part of RAFs 11 Group, but Churchill, recognizing the Japanese threat to Australia, dispatched three Spitfire squadrons to Darwin in the Northern summer of 1942. Simultaneously a group of talented young Australian pilots returned home from service in North Africa and Malta to join the newly formed Wing. Number One Fighter Wing, known as the Churchill Wing, became operational in January 1943, scoring their first victory on February 6th. Shortly after on March 2nd, the Wings Spitfires led by the legendary Wing Commander Clive Caldwell came up against Zeros - the first time the two types had met over Australian skies. The Spitfire pilots immediately took the upper hand, bringing down two Zeros without loss - a portend of what was to come. These early encounters were the start of what became a highly successful air defence campaign, and by the end of the year the seasoned fighter pilots of No 1 Fighter Wing had gained total air superiority, and had claimed over 100 victories. The Japanese withdrew and the attacks of Darwin ceased. Flight Commnders edition of 400 prints. Paper size 25 inches x 19 inches (64cm x 48cm). Price £250.00 Signed by : Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC,
Flight Lieutenant Ted Hall,
Chief Test Pilot Alex Henshaw (deceased)
and
Flight Lieutenant Don MacLean.
Commanding Officers Edition of 150 prints. Paper size 25 inches x 19 inches (64cm x 48cm). Price £ Signed by Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC,
Flight Lieutenant Ted Hall,
Chief Test Pilot Alex Henshaw (deceased), Flight Lieutenant Don MacLean,
Flight Lieutenant John Bisley,
Flight Lieutenant W R Cundy DFC DFM MID,
Air Commodore Ken James
and
Squadron Leader Ron MacDonald.
Guardian Top End Edition of 75 prints. Paper size 25 inches x 19 inches (64cm x 48cm). Price £ Signed by Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC,
Flight Lieutenant Ted Hall,
Chief Test Pilot Alex Henshaw (deceased),
Flight Lieutenant Don MacLean,
Flight Lieutenant John Bisley,
Flight Lieutenant W R Cundy DFC DFM MID,
Air Commodore Ken James,
Squadron Leader Ron MacDonald
and
Rt Hon Sir John Gorton (deceased).
ITEM CODE DHM2683 |
| Major Arthur Coningham by Ivan Berryman. Australian by birth and serving with the New Zealand army in the middle east at the outbreak of World War 1, Arthur Coningham joined the RFC in 1917 and was posted to 32 Squadron, flying DH.2s, as depicted here. It was in such a machine that Coningham scored the first of his 14 victories, sending down a German two seater over Ervillers. He survived the war and was made AOC Desert Air Force in 1941 before taking command of 2nd Tactical Air Force until the Second World War’s end whereupon he became Air Marshal and was awarded a knighthood. He died in January 1948. Signed limited edition of 20 giclee paper prints. Image size 26 inches x 17 inches (66cm x 43cm). Price £150.00 Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 10 artist proofs. Image size 26 inches x 17 inches (66cm x 43cm). Price £180.00 Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Small limited edition of 15 artist proofs. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £75.00 Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Save £5 on selected prints - Was £80
Small limited edition of 50 prints. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £51.00 Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Save £5 on selected prints - Was £56
Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. Size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm). Price £480.00 £110 Off Selected Giclee Canvas Prints - Was £590
Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. Size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £370.00 £90 Off Selected Giclee Canvas Prints - Was £460
Original painting, oil on canvas by Ivan Berryman. Size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £
Remarque edition - limited edition of 10 giclee prints featuring an original pencil remarque. Image size 26 inches x 17 inches (66cm x 43cm) plus border with text and remarque drawing.. Price £350.00
ITEM CODE DHM1756 |
| Combat Over New Guinea by Nicolas Trudgian. Australian Ace Dick Cresswell tangles with a Japanese Zero in the humid air of the tropics over New Guinea during an encounter in 1942. Flying a P-40E Kittyhawk with the insignia of 77 Squadron, RAAF blazoned on his aircraft, Cresswell makes a head-on pass leaving the enemy aircraft streaming smoke. Immortalised by the Flying Tigers, the P-40 was a fine combat aircraft that operated in the Pacific, European and Middle East theaters. Signed limited edition of 600 prints. Paper size 16 inches x 13 inches (41cm x 33cm). Price £70.00 Signed by Wing Commander R C Dick Cresswell (deceased), in addition to the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
Limited edition of 80 artist proofs. Paper size 16 inches x 13 inches (41cm x 33cm). Price £80.00 Signed by Wing Commander R C Dick Cresswell (deceased), in addition to the artist. Part of our Buy One, Get One Half Price Offer
** Ex Display) Signed limited edition of 600 prints. (Two copies reduced to clear) Paper size 16 inches x 13 inches (41cm x 33cm). Price £60.00 Signed by Wing Commander R C Dick Cresswell (deceased), in addition to the artist.
ITEM CODE DHM2111 |
| Mirage III First and Last by Michael Rondot. In this classic study of 2 v 2 air combat, two Mirage II fighters of the Royal Australian Air Force turn at the merge to engage a pair of evading A4 skyhawks over the Pacific. The painting features the first and last Australian built Mirages in the colours of nos. 75 and 77 squadrons. Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Paper size 28 inches x 20 inches (71cm x 51cm). Price £150.00
ITEM CODE MR0034 |
| Milne Bay - The Turning Point by Robert Taylor. The Battle for Milne Bay in New Guinea was a story of true grit, determination, and valour; it was the moment when the Imperial Japanese Army tasted defeat on land for the first time in nearly three centuries. In the space of two weeks, the Japanese attempt to capture Milne Bay was halted, and any ambitions they might have held to invade Australia thwarted. And that victory was due in no small part to the Kittyhawks of 75 and 76 Squadrons RAAF. After the Japanese had invaded the north of New Guinea, their main objective was to take Port Moresby in the south. But defeat at the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 put an end to any invasion of Port Moresby by sea: instead they must strike across the Owen Stanley Ranges via the Kokoda Trail. Protecting Port Moresbys eastern flank was the key strategic natural harbour at Milne Bay, and in June 1942 American engineers, protected by Australian troops, began construction of the first of three proposed airstrips to be hacked out of the steaming jungle. Within a few weeks they had laid the first runway, formed by laying steel matting in almost impossible conditions. With heavy rain falling almost continuously, it was an extraordinary feat. Four days later the Kittyhawks of 75 and 76 Squadrons, RAAF, took up residence, together with a few Hudsons of 6 and 32 Squadrons to provide long-range reconnaissance. On the night of 25th August 1942, in torrential rain, a Japanese invasion force began their landin in the bay. With the Australian troops bitterly contesting every yard, the fighting was savage and bloody; conditions in the jungle battleground were wet, nuddy, and atrocious. At first light the next morning the Kittyhawks and Hudsons immediately joined the battle, flying continuous raids against the Japanese forces. Sortie after sortie, strafing and bombing the enemy troops, their landing barges and stores. For the next eleven days the bitter battle raged, the Australian troops fighting in savage hand to hand combat as the Japanese were halted at No.3 airstrips permieter. But eventually the Japanese were spent as a fighting force. With no hope of reinforcement, they were forced to withdraw. A quarter of their invasion force had been lost. Robert Taylors powerful painting depicts Kittyhawks from 75 and & 76 Squadrons RAAF, returning to No 1 Strip after attacking Japanese positions during the Battle for Milne Bay. Under the starboard wing of the lead aircraft, Polly, the smoke of action is clearly visible as the Japanese press from their landing site, along the coast towards the airstrip. Polly, now beautifully restored, resides in the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra, a tribute to the men and machines who stopped the Japanese in New Guinea. Signed limited edition of 400 prints, numbered 151 - 550. Paper size 25 inches x 19 inches (64cm x 48cm) Image size 20 inches x 15 inches (51cm x 38cm). Price £165.00 Signed by
Flight Lieutnenant H A Harry Kerr MID and
Flight Lieutenant Arthur D Tucker.
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Paper size 25 inches x 19 inches (64cm x 48cm) Image size 20 inches x 15 inches (51cm x 38cm). Price £295.00 Signed by
Flight Lieutnenant H A Harry Kerr MID,
Flight Lieutenant Arthur D Tucker and Squadron Leader Peter Booth-Jones DFC.
Collectors edition of 150 prints. Paper size 25 inches x 19 inches (64cm x 48cm) Image size 20 inches x 15 inches (51cm x 38cm). Price £225.00 Signed by
Flight Lieutnenant H A Harry Kerr MID,
Flight Lieutenant Arthur D Tucker, Squadron Leader Peter Booth-Jones DFC, Flight Lieutenant Raife J Cowan, Group Captain Ross H Glassop DFC* MID, Flight Lieutenant A J Nat Gould, Flight Lieutenant Noel C Todd and Squadron Leader Bruce D Watson DFC.
Publishers Proof edition of 75 prints. Paper size 25 inches x 19 inches (64cm x 48cm) Image size 20 inches x 15 inches (51cm x 38cm). Price £395.00 Signed by
Flight Lieutnenant H A Harry Kerr MID,
Flight Lieutenant Arthur D Tucker, Squadron Leader Peter Booth-Jones DFC, Flight Lieutenant Raife J Cowan, Group Captain Ross H Glassop DFC* MID, Flight Lieutenant A J Nat Gould, Flight Lieutenant Noel C Todd , Squadron Leader Bruce D Watson DFC and Hon Gough Whitlam AC QC.
ITEM CODE DHM1769 |
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Band of Brothers by Robert Taylor The painting shows S for Sugar on the morning of 27th April, 1944
after her 95th sortie - a raid on the ball-bearing factory at Schweinfurt.
As the battle-scarred bomber taxies in at RAF Waddington, other 467
Squadron Lancasters follow, heading for their dispersal points. Already
the weary crews begin their informal debriefing.
One famous aircraft was typical
of, and ultimately came to symbolise, the men and machines of Royal Air
Force Bomber Command. Flying initially with 83 Squadron Pathfinder
Force, then 467 Squadron RAAF, Avro Lancaster serial number R5868, call
sign S for Sugar, took part in almost every major attack on Germany
between the summer of 1942 and the end of hostilities. With the life
expectancy of a new Lancaster being just a few months, it was a miracle
she survived the war.
The mighty Lancaster, the
mainstay of RAF Bomber Command, crewed by volunteers from Britain,
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Rhodesia, South Africa, and many other
nations opposed to Nazi rule, flew day and night sorties whenever there
was a chance of reaching the target. Their unflinching courage and
selfless devotion to duty paved the way for the D-Day invasion, and the
ultimate liberation of Nazi occupied Europe.
Embellished with Goering's
infamous quotation "No Enemy Plane Will Fly Over The Reich
Territory", S for Sugar took her bombs to Berlin, Hamburg,
Schweinfurt, Bremen, Hanover, Wurzburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt,
Dusseldorf, and other prime targets, flying the second greatest number
of operational sorties of any bomber in the Command. Time and again
Sugar brought her crew home, often limping back riddled with flak and
bullet holes, occasionally on three engines, and once all the way back
from the German capital with a badly damaged wing following a mid-air
collision over the target.
By the war's end this trusty
bomber had completed no fewer than 137 operations over enemy territory,
bringing her crew home every time. Now magnificently restored to her
former glory, S for Sugar resides in the RAF Museum at Hendon, providing
a lasting tribute to the gallant men of RAF Bomber Command.
Mirage III First and Last by Michael Rondot In this classic study of2 v 2 air combat, two Mirage II fighters of the
Royal Australian Air Force turn at the 'merge' to engage a pair of evading
A4 skyhawks over the Pacific. The painting features the first and last
Australian built Mirages in the colours of nos. 75 and 77 squadrons.
Desert Hawks by Robert Taylor A
flight of Kittyhawks of No. 3 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force on a
strike mission over the North African Desert in January 1942, in the
build-p to the Battle of Alamein. No. 3 Squadron RAAF was the first in the
Desert to achieve 100 confirmed victories, and continuing in combat
throughout the fighting in North Africa, became the Squadron with the
highest number of air victories of the Desert Air Force Squadrons Signatories: Nicky Barr, Bobby
Gibbes, Peter Geoffrey, Alan Rawlinson.
Turmoil in Norwegian Waters by Marii Chernev Operating
from RAF Leuchers on January 29th 1943 Hamdens of 455 RAAF & 489 RNAF Squadrons
Coastal Command escorted by Beaufighters attacked and sank the former
Norwegian cargo ship Kaldes south west of Stavanger.
Combat Over New Guinea by Nicholas Trudgian Australian Ace Dick Cresswell tangles with a
Japanese Zero in the humid air of the tropics over New Guinea during an
encounter in 1942. Flying a P-40E Kittyhawk with the insignia of 77
Squadron, RAAF blazoned on his aircraft, Cresswell makes a head-on pass
leaving the enemy aircraft streaming smoke. Immortalised by the Flying
Tigers, the P-40 was a fine combat aircraft that operated in the
Pacific, European and Middle East theatre Signed by Dick
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