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Aviation Art Postcards |
  | Raid on Taranto by Anthony Saunders. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The balance of maritime power in the Mediterranean was transformed at a stroke by the British air attack which disabled three Italian battleships in a few minutes. The target was the core of Mussolinis fleet, tucked away in Taranto Harbour, in south...... | |
 | A Buzz for Beamont by David Pentland (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Wing Commander Roland Beaumont in his personal Tempest V, intercepted and downed his first V1 Buzzbomb on the night of June 22nd, 1944, over south east England. As Commander of 150 wing and others he went on to shoot down a total of 30 V1 flying bom...... | |
  | The Last Patrol by David Pentland (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | A pair of ME109 G-14s of 9th Staffel, Jagdgeswader 54 (Greenheart Wing) make a final sortie during the last days of March 1945....... | |
  | Jet Attack by David Pentland. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Oberleutenant Schalls ME 262 of JG7 catches the Australian crewed Lancaster from 5 group dead astern as it lines up for its bombing run on the Hamburg U-Boat pens. Even at this angle the speed of the jet made it difficult to get off more than a few ...... | |
  | Dawn Descent by David Pentland (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | A C130 Hercules MK1 from RAF Lynham Transport Wing, delivers a low level Brigade drop of Airbourne forces over Salisbury Plain. The C130 Hercules is the workhorse of the Royal Air Force Air Transport (AT) fleet and is based at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshi...... |
  | Pattles First Victory, 4th August 1940 by David Pentland. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Gloster Gladiators flown by Flt. Lt. M.T. Pattle and Flying Officer Johnny Lancaster surprise a flight of Breda 65s from 59A Squadriglia over Bit Taob El Essem, North Africa. Pattle went on to be top Commonwealth Air Ace of all time. ...... | |
  | Pressing Home the Kill by Randall Wilson. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Dauntless Dive Bombers Dive on the Battleship Musashi in the Sibuyan Sea, October 1944. ...... | |
  | Yankie Station by Randall Wilson (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | CVN 65 USS Enterprise on her first deployment in the Gulf of Tonkin. On this day she flew 165 sorties, a carrier record! Two A4 Skyhawks head towards a bombing mission while an F4 phantom rides escort....... | |
  | Arks Angels by Randall Wilson (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Depicted late in her long serving deployments Ark Royals Bricks make a pass as they return from a low level interdiction exercise....... | |
  | Frozen Chosin, Korea, December 1950 by David Pentland (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | On 27th November 1950, thousands of Chinese troops swarmed over the frozen Yalu river on the North Korean /Chinese border, cutting off US Marines in the Chosin Reservoir area. Over the next ten days the marines with air support from both the Navy and...... |
  | Out of Alex by David Pentland. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | A swordfish from HMS Warspite on patrol off the coast of Egypt, near the port of Alexandria. ...... | |
  | The Golden Age by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Depicting the short S45 Solent 2 G-AHIS (Scapa), BOAC Flying Boat, passing over the Queen Elizabeth on Southampton Water, Late 1940s ...... | |
  | USS Ranger by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Two F14 Tomcats of VF-1 pass in close formation over the stern of the veteran USS Ranger (CV-61) ...... | |
  | USS Dwight Eisenhower by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | A pair of F18 Hornets overfly the Nimitz-class carrier USS Dwight Eisenhower (CV-69) with the surface combatant USS Arleigh Burke (DDF-51) off her port bow. ...... | |
  | USS Coral Sea by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | USS Coral Sea (CV-43 being replenished by fast combat support ship USS Seattle (DE-3) as two of the carriers compliment of F.4s of VF-111 The Sundowners makes a low pass. ...... |
  | USS America by Ivan Berryman (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | A Vought A-7 Corsair of VA-146 makes its final approach to the sprawling deck of the USS America, (CVA-66) as she skirts Vietnamese waters in company with a little Rock-class missile / command cruiser. The A-7 became the Navys prime weapon toward th...... | |
  | USS Hornet. Doolittles Raiders by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | In a 40 knot gale, Lt Col. Doolittles B25 hauls itself into the air. The first of a 16 strong strike force en route to Tokyo. ...... | |
  | HMS Valiant and HMS Phoebe at Alexandria, 1941 by Ivan Berryman (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | A pair of 272 Squadron Bristol Beaufighters roar over the extensively rebuilt battleship HMS Valiant as she lies at anchor at Alexandria late in 1941, accompanied by the cruiser HMS Phoebe and Valiants sister ship HMS Queen Elizabeth (in the extreme ...... | |
 | Target Y The Eder Dam Raid, The Ruhr Valley, 17th May 1942 by David Pentland. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | At 0154am, Pilot officer Les Knight in Avro Lancaster AJ-N transmitted the codeword Dinghy, the signal that the Eder Dam had been successfully breached. Although the target was undefended by flak, its location made it extremely difficult to hit. In ...... | |
  | HMS Formidable by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | With HMS Warspite keeping a watchful eye off her port bow, the Illustrious class carrier HMS Formidable prepares to recover a Fairey Albacore TB MK1 of No. 826 sqn. following a vital sortie against Italian shipping at the start of the Battle of Cape ...... |
  | Dawn Dog Fight, Mick Mannock VC by Graeme Lothian. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | High above the trenches in April 1918, 74 Squadron engage the famed JG 1 led by the renowned ace baron von Richthofen in his distinctive bright red DR 1. Edward Mick mannock flying a SE5.a diving down top engage another Fokker Dr1 as the red baron f...... | |
  | Adolf Galland / Messerschmitt Bf109 E-4 by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Germanys primary fighter during World War II, the Daimler-Benz DB601A powered BF109E-4 was much loved by its pilots, combining good speed and manoeuverability with a powerful armament, namely two 7.9mm MG17 machine guns in the top decking, two wing m...... | |
  | USS Kearsarge by Randall Wilson. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | USS Kearsarge CV33, USS Princeton and USS Rochester CA124 in Korea 1952 with bearcats over the top. ...... | |
  | USS Independence by Randall Wilson. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | USS Independence launches multiple aircraft, RA5C Vigilante from the waist cat, and a Crusader from the bow while deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam. ...... | |
  | Attack on the Scharnhorst by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Swordfish of 825 Sqn led by Lt-Cdr Esmonde begin their heroic attack on the battlescruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as they make their way up the English Channel from Brest during Operation Cerberus on 12th Februa...... |
  | Dawn Raiders by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Junkers JU87 R-1 Stukas find a gap in the cloudbase en route to their target during the Norwegian Campaign of 1941. ...... | |
  | The Second Wave, Greece, 20th May 1941 by David Pentland. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Following the initial parachute drops at Maleme (West) and Canea (Middle) Group East, comprising of Fallschirmjager Regiment 1 and 2nd battalion FJR2, prepared for their descent on Crete. Charged with the capture of Heraklion and its aerodrome, thei...... | |
  | The Dambusters by Graeme Lothian. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | The night of the 16th May 1943 saw 19 modified Lancasters of the specially formed 617 squadron set out to breach the Ennepe, Eder, Mohne and Sorpe dams in Westphalia, Germany. The mission was led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson. ...... | |
  | Market Garden. Arnhem by Graeme Lothian. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Paratroopers of the 1st Battalion sort their kit out and get ready to enplane the waiting American Dakota C-47s of the 14 and 59 Squadrons/61st Troop Carrier Group. The paratroops took off simultaneously from Saltby and Barkston, commencing at 1121....... | |
  | Arnhem - September 17th 1944 by Graeme Lothian. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Eight minutes after the gliders had touched down at LZ-Z the first of the paratroops started to arrive at 1353. Thirty six C47s over DZ-X dropped the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment at 1403. On the ground are the discarded chutes of the 2nd Battali...... |
  | Baron Von Richthofen, March 1918 by Chris Collingwood. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Germanys greatest First World War fighter ace, Baron Von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron is shown departing his Fokker DR.1 Triplane 425/17 after yet another successful sortie. 425/17 was the aircraft in which the Red Baron finally met his end in...... | |
  | Third Time Lucky by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Standing his aircraft at the height of just 60 feet above the waters of the Mohne, Flt Lt Maltby braves a hail of anti-aircraft fire just seconds before the release of the bouncing bomb that would at last breach the dam on that historic night of the...... | |
  | Operation Chastise - The Night They Broke the Dams by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Guy Gibsons Lancaster having unsuccessfully dropped its bomb, draws enemy fire from the aircraft of Sqn Ldr Young as his bomb explodes spectacularly on the Mohne Dam during the audacious Dams Raids of 16th/17th May 1943. ...... | |
 | A Hand of Aces by Ivan Berryman. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Sopwith Camels of 45 Sqn, Istrana, are shown on an early patrol on a crisp morning in the Winter of 1917-18. B6238 was an aircraft shared by Lts E McN Hand and H M Moody, whilst B6354 was the mount of Lt J C B Firth. ...... | |
  | Overture to Overlord by David Pentland. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | RAF De Havilland Mosquito FbIVs of 107 Squadron, 2nd Tactical Airforce on a night bombing mission of the French Railways, as part of the allied preparations for D-Day. ...... |
  | Mission to Yokohama by David Pentland. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Boeing B29 Superfortresses of the USAAF 40th Bomb Group come under attack from a Kawasaki Ki64 Hein (Tony) of the Japanese Army Airforces 244th Sentai. ...... | |
  | Duel on the Dnepr, Southen Russia, Summer 1943 by David Pentland. (PC) Postcard : £2.00 | Rumanian IAR 80c on a tactical reconnaissance mission is intercepted and shot down by a Soviet YAK3 over the river Dnepr. ...... |
| Aviation History Timeline : 22nd February | |||
| DAY | MONTH | YEAR | DETAILS |
| 22 | February | 1941 | Flight Lieutenant J Scoular of No.112 Sqn RAF shot down a SM79 |
| 22 | February | 1941 | Former British Battle of Britain pilot, F/O H. Morgan-Gray of 46 Squadron, was Killed. |
| 22 | February | 1941 | Former British Battle of Britain pilot, P/O J. H. Rothwell of 601, 605 & 32 Squadrons, was Killed. |
| 22 | February | 1941 | Former British Battle of Britain pilot, Sgt. D. S. Wallis of 23 & 235 Squadrons, was Killed. |
| 22 | February | 1941 | Former New Zealand Battle of Britain pilot, Sgt R. W. A. Brookman of 253 Squadron, was Killed. |
| 22 | February | 1942 | Feldwebel Bruno Sassen of 10./Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3 was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross |
| 22 | February | 1942 | Former British Battle of Britain pilot, P/O R. I. Chaffe of 245 and 43 Squadrons, was Killed. |
| 22 | February | 1942 | General der Flieger Helmuth Förster of I. Fliegerkorps was awarded the Knight's Cross |
| 22 | February | 1942 | Leutnant Hans-Joachim Marseille of 3./Jagdgeschwader 27 was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross |
| 22 | February | 1942 | Oberfeldwebel Otto Schulz of II./Jagdgeschwader 27 was awarded the Knight's Cross |
| 22 | February | 1945 | Charles Price of 352nd Fighter Group, 486th Fighter Squadron shot down a Me262 |
| 22 | February | 1945 | David Fox of 366th Fighter Group, 391st Fighter Squadron shot down a Me262 |
| 22 | February | 1945 | Gordon Compton of 353rd Fighter Group, 351st Fighter Squadron shot down a Me262 |
| 22 | February | 1945 | Oliven Cowan of 365th Fighter Group, 388th Fighter Squadron shot down a Me262 |
| 22 | February | 1945 | Wayne Blickenstaff of 353rd Fighter Group, 350th Fighter Squadron shot down a Me262 |
| 22 | February | 1945 | Flight Lieutenant John Stafford of No.486 Sqn RAF shot down a Me109 |
| 22 | February | 1946 | Gerhard Michalski, a WW2 Ace with 73.00 victories, died on this day |
| 22 | February | 1946 | Knight's Cross recipient Gerhard Michalski of 4./Jagdgeschwader 53 died on this day |
| 22 | February | 1988 | Former British Battle of Britain pilot, F/Lt B. Heath of 611 Squadron, Passed away. |
| 22 | February | 2007 | Commander Sidney Hal Jim Suthers DSC DFC RN, whose signature is on some of our aviation art, died on this day |
| 22 | February | 2009 | Squadron Leader Tom McPhee CB DFC*, whose signature is on some of our aviation art, died on this day |
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