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1st Dec 2011
 
 
 
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Airspeed Horsa Glider
Ref   870   £50
Original acrylic, signed by the artist Robert Bearman.
21cm x 32 cm ( 30cmX 40 1/2cm including mount).
The mount is signed by Staff Sergeant Richard Long, B Sqdn.
The Horsa was first used operationally in November 1942 in the unsuccessful attack on the German Heavy Water Plant at Rjukan in Norway (Operation Freshman). The two Horsa gliders, each carrying 15 sappers, and one of the Halifax tug aircraft, crashed due to bad weather. All 23 survivors from the glider crashes were executed on the orders of Hitler.
Later in the war six Horsas carried the troops who captured Pegasus Bridge, over the Caen canal, and a further bridge over the River Orne.
These gliders were pre-fabricated in 30 parts
The designer A. H. Tiltman said that the Horsa "went from the drawing board to the air in ten months, which was not too bad considering the drawings had to be made suitable for the furniture trade who were responsible for all production.
Approximately 5,000 Horsas had been built when production came to an end.
 
 
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'Three Spitfires' 603 Squadron.
Ref  865  £95
An original acrylic, heightened with white, signed by the artist Robert Bearman.
21cm x 32 cm ( 30cmX 40 1/2cm including mount).
The mount is signed in pencil by Dame Vera Lynn, Group Captain Billy Drake, Flight Lieutenant Albert Gregory DFC, Doug Nicholls DFC and Byron Duncenfield, AFC
 
 
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North American B-25 Mitchell
Ref   867   £65
Original acrylic, signed by the artist Robert Bearman.
21cm x 32 cm ( 30cmX 40 1/2cm including mount).
The North American B-25 Mitchell, was the only American military aircraft named after a specific person (It was named in honor of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation).
On April 18, 1942 Lt. Col. James Doolittle took off in a flight of sixteen of these aircraft from the US Navy carrier, U.S.S. Hornet (CV-8), to bomb Japan in retaliation for that country's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Signed on the mount by five pilots, Davey Jones, A.E. Cole, Tom Griffin, David J. Thatcher and Ed Horton.
 
 
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Douglas DC3
Ref  866  £75
Original acrylic, signed by the artist Robert Bearman.
Known by a number of different names but best known in the UK as the Dakota, this example bears the triple white identifying stripes introduced on D Day. The Dakota also made a huge contribution to the Berlin Airlift.
21cm x 32 cm ( 30cmX 40 1/2cm including mount).
Signed on the mount by Ken Wallis, 268 & 241 Sqdn. (Lysanders) and 103 & 37 Sqdns. (Wellingtons), he is also known for his work on Autogyros (He provided and flew Little Nellie in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice).
Also signed by:
W/o P.R. Donaldson, no. 10 Sqdn., he was a p.o.w. in Stalag V111b;
P.D. Carden, 15, 35 & 582 PFF Sqdn.;
Walter Morrison, 103 Sqdn., who spent time in Luft. 111 and Colditz Offlag 1Vc, plus another pilot from 432 Sqdn. RCAF
 
 
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Bristol Blenheim
Ref  869    £75
Original acrylic, signed by the artist Robert Bearman.
21cm x 32 cm ( 30cmX 40 1/2cm including mount).
The mount is signed by  Air Marshall Sir Ivor Broome, 114, 105, 107, 571, 128, 163 (Oc) Squadron, also signed by his navigator Tommy Broom, 105, 571, 128 and 163 Sqdns. (it was often said 'the two brooms are out doing their sweeps')
Countries that used these aircraft (4422 were built) included United Kingdom, Canada, Finland, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece, Free French Air Force, Portugal, South Africa, and Croatia.
The German Luftwaffe and the Italian Regia Aeronautica both operated captured aircraft.
 
 
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Douglas A20 Boston Bomber
Ref   868   £55
Original acrylic, signed by the artist Robert Bearman.
21cm x 32 cm ( 30cmX 40 1/2cm including mount).
signed by Bryan Burbridge DSO, DFC, 85 Sqdn
On 4 July, 1942, the first US Army Air Forces bomber mission over Western Europe was flown by American crews of the 15th Bomb Squadron operating British Bostons against airfields in the Netherlands. Bostons were also used to lay smoke screens for the raid at Dieppe in August 1942. 418 Squadron, RCAF, operated them from March 1942 - July 1943, when they were replaced by Mosquitos.