Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk

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Royal Australian Air Force and Royal Air Force P-40 aircraft. P40 Warhawks from the Royal Australian Air Force and RAF Curtiss Kittyhawks over Malta shown in aviation art prints published by Cranston Fine Arts the aviation art company.

Kittyhawk Pilot.  Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*  Joined the R.A.F. in 1936. His first posting was to 1 squadron flying Furies then Hurricanes and first saw action over France in the Spring of 1940 and was awarded his first DFC by the end of the year. As a Squadron Leader he was sent to West Africa to command 128 Squadron. 1942 saw his commanding 112 squadron in North Africa, in July saw an immediate BAR to his DFC and in December an immediate DSO. Posted to Malta as Wing Commander he won a US DFC in 1943. Back in the UK he now was flying Typhoons in the lead up to D-Day. With Pete Brothers he was sent to the States to attend the US Staff School at Fort Leavenworth. After the war he continued in the R.A.F. serving in Japan, Malaya, Singapore, Switzerland and his final posting as Group Captain RAF Chivenor, Devon. Retired in July 1963. Going to Portugal where he ran a Bar and Restaurant and dealing in Real Estate. In his flying career he accounted for more than 24 enemy aircraft

Curtiss Kittyhawk, single engine fighter with a top speed of 362mph, ceiling of 30,000 feet and a range of 1190 miles with extra fuel tanks but 900 miles under normal operation.  Kitty Hawk armaments was four or six .50in machine guns in the wings and a bomb load of up to 1,000 lb's

A development of the earlier Tomahawk, the Kitty Hawk saw service in may air force's around the world, American, Australian, New Zealand, and the Royal Air Force, which used them in the Mediterranean, north Africa, and Malta from January 1942 apart from the large numbers used by the US Air Force, over 3,000 were used by Commonwealth air force's including the Royal air Force.


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Billy Drake - First of Many by Ivan Berryman.
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The Jaws of Victory by Ivan Berryman.

Group Captain Billy Drake in Curtiss P.40 AL161 of 112 Sqn downing a Stuka during the North Africa Campaign in 1942.

Signed limited edition of 35 prints. Image size 12 inches x 9 inches (31cm x 23cm). Price £70.00

Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*.

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Limited edition of 15 artist proofs. Image size 12 inches x 9 inches (31cm x 23cm). Price £115.00

Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*.

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Original pencil drawing by Ivan Berryman.   Size 16 inches x 12 inches (41cm x 31cm). Price £

Signed by Karl Spreitzer (deceased).


ITEM CODE B0293

Desert Sharks by Robert Taylor.

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Signed limited edition of 90 prints.  Free Shipping Special Offer £110.00

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Desert Sharks by Robert Taylor.

Robert captures precisely the arid heat, dust and smoke of desert warfare, conveying an air of impending conflict. Neville Duke in his 112 Sqn P40-D Kittyhawk.

Signed limited edition of 90 prints. Paper size 21 inches x 15.5 inches (53cm x 40cm). Price £110.00

Signed by Squadron Leader Neville Duke, DSO, OBE, DFC*, AFC, CzMC (deceased) .



ITEM CODE DHM2626.


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Desert Sharks and Eagles by Nicolas Trudgian.

The air war fought in the skies above the inhospitable wastelands of the North African desert were among the most hotly contested of the war. The outcome of the bitter land war raging below largely depended upon who controlled the air space above, and both sides knew it. JG-27, having cut its teeth in the battles of France and Britain, was the first Luftwaffe unit to arrive in North Africa. Commanded by the mercurial Eduard Neumann, its Me109s were superior to the Hurricanes and P-40 Kittyhawks flown by the RAF pilots and, without the restriction of close escort duties dictated on the Western Front, the JG-27 pilots roamed the desert skies, closing in combat with the British fighters at every opportunity. The North African air campaign spawned many fighter aces, including Hans-Joachim Marseille who claimed more than 150 victories in his short career - more than any other Luftwaffe ace flying against RAF pilots. The scale of the desert air war is highlighted by raw statistics: 1400 British aircraft lost; over 1200 Luftwaffe destroyed. A dog-fight between Me109s from JG-27 and P-40 Kittyhawks of the RAFs 12 Squadron, led by Killer Caldwell, and later Billy Drake, 112 Squadron were in constant combat with Edu Neumanns fighters as they jousted for air supremacy above Rommels advancing Afrika Korps tanks. Below them, the desolate beauty of the Libyan desert stretches as far as the eye can see.

Signed limited edition of 450 prints. Paper size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm). Price £180.00

Signed by Hauptmann Emil Clade (deceased), Group Captain Billy Drake, Squadron Leader Neville Duke (deceased) and Oberst Eduard Neumann (deceased).

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Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Paper size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm). Price £220.00

Signed by Hauptmann Emil Clade (deceased), Group Captain Billy Drake, Squadron Leader Neville Duke (deceased) and Oberst Eduard Neumann.

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Limited edition of publishers proofs. Paper size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm). Price £190.00

Signed by Hauptmann Emil Clade (deceased), Group Captain Billy Drake, Squadron Leader Neville Duke (deceased) and Oberst Eduard Neumann (deceased).

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Nicolas Trudgian Promotional Flyer. A4 Size Double Sheet 11.5 inches x 8 inches (30m x 21cm) . Price £1.50

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** (Ex Display) Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (To copies reduced to clear) Paper size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm). Price £120.00

Signed by Hauptmann Emil Clade, Group Captain Billy Drake, Squadron Leader Neville Duke (deceased) and Oberst Eduard Neumann (deceased).


ITEM CODE NT0315


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Kittyhawks of No.112 Squadron by Graeme Lothian.

P-40 Kittyhawks of No.112 Squadron, Medenine, April 1943. Aircraft GA-V (ground, nearest on right) is Kittyhawk Mk.III, FR440, which was later lost when damaged beyond repair after a belly landing.

Signed limited edition of 200 giclee paper prints. Image size 26 inches x 17 inches (66cm x 43cm). Price £130.00

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Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 26 inches x 17 inches (66cm x 43cm). Price £180.00

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Small limited edition of 20 artist proofs. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £70.00

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Small limited edition of 50 prints. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £51.00

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Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. Size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm). Price £480.00

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Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. Size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £370.00

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Original painting, oil on canvas by Graeme Lothian. Size 28 inches x 18 inches (71cm x 46cm). Price £1500.00


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


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Duel in the Desert by Nicolas Trudgian.

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Signed limited edition of 400 prints. Special Offer £55.00

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Over Grand Harbour by Anthony Saunders. (B)
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Desert Hawks by Robert Taylor
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Duel in the Desert by Nicolas Trudgian.

The P-40, legendary for its service with Chennaults Flying Tigers in China, was one of the RAFs principle fighters in the north African Desert war. A low-level dogfight between P-40 Kittyhawks of 112 Squadron is shown, as they tangle with the Luftwaffe ME109s over Matamata Hills, near the Mareth line on the border between Tunisia and Libya, early March 1943.

Signed limited edition of 400 prints. Paper size 12 inches x 9.5 inches (31cm x 24cm). Price £55.00

Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*

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ITEM CODE NT0004


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Duel in the Desert by Nicolas Trudgian.
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The Jaws of Victory by Ivan Berryman.
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Desert Sharks and Eagles by Nicolas Trudgian.
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Over Grand Harbour by Anthony Saunders.

P40 Kittyhawks of No.3 Squadron RAAF based at Ta Qali Airfield, Malta.

Signed limited edition of 2500 prints. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £38.00

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Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £43.00

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Drake signature edition of 200 prints from the signed limited edition of 2500 prints. Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm). Price £65.00

Signed by Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC*.

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Limited edition of 50 giclee canvas prints. Image size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £370.00

Special Offer £90 Off Selected Giclee Canvas Prints - Was £460


ITEM CODE DHM0422

 
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 Cresswell.

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.

Over Grand Harbour by Anthony Saunders  P40 Kittyhawk over the Grand Harbour of Malta.

 

 

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Anthony Gibbs was born in 1951 in Birmingham. He went to Bourneville School of Art for one year, but is mostly self-taught. His first one man show was in 1976 at the Colmore Galleries, with further one man exhibitions at this venue following, in 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1988 and 1991. Anthony Gibbs had a one man exhibition Nature In Art at Wallsworth Hall, Gloucestershire in 2000. His first limited edition print released February 1988 - White Tigers Ever Watchful – was an edition of 1550, the largest edition of a limited print by Solomon and Whitehead at the time, and the largest order from the from the USA (650) they have ever had. He went to Kenya for the first time in February 1989, and is a member of the Society of Animal Artists in New York, The Woodland Trust. He won the Peoples Choice Award on a national tour exhibition of the USA in 1992 and 1993, with the Society of Animal Artists. Anthony Gibbs was awarded the Award of Excellence Medal from the Society in 1997 and 2001. He has exhibited at numerous venues across the USA with the Society of Animal Artists and also across Britain – exhibitions including the Mall Galleries, Nature In Art, Wildfowl And Wetlands Trust, London. He has sold work through both Christies and Sotherbys. Anthony Gibbs went to the Yellowstone National Park and Tetons National Park to study the wildlife and habitat in the U.S.A. in 2003.

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