Tactical Support

With bright yellow spinners and distinctive twin-booms glinting in the June sunshine, two P-38 Lockheed Lightnings of the USAAF's 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group hurtle low over Pegasus Bridge as they race across the Normandy landscape shortly after the D-Day landings, June 1944. Flying from their base at Kings Cliffe in Cambridgeshire they have today been tasked to support the advancing allied forces; they will strafe and bomb the enemy lines, destroying enemy communications, armour and ground targets, causing as much chaos and disruption as they can. Dangerous work, these low-level missions, but tasks that the tough P-38 pilots relish.

Each print in the edition is signed by pilots who flew the P-38 in combat in Europe, together with veterans who fought on D-Day.

Signatures:

Limited Edition
Each print in this edition is personally authenticated by two pilots who flew the Lockheed P-38 Lightning in Europe during World War II.

• Captain James KUNKLE
• Lieutenant Colonel William WILLIS
  
  Veterans Edition
  Together with the remarques, these SIX signature editions are signed by an additional P-38 pilot, together with three Army veterans who fought on D-Day:
• Captain James KUNKLE
• Lieutenant Colonel William WILLIS
• Lieutenant Colonel WILLIAM POPE
• Staff Sergeant PETER BOYLE
• Sergeant TITCH RAYNER
• Sergeant BILL TRUE