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Back From The Fight
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Limited Edition of 95...$165.00
Overall print size: 24” x 18”
Image size: 19 ½” x 13”
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15 Artist Proofs...$275.00
The Signatures
Along with the artist Anthony Saunders, every print carries the original signatures of three highly-regarded Battle of Britain veterans:
Air Commodore PETER ‘PETE’ BROTHERS CBE DSO DFC*
Hurricane pilot 32 & 257 Squadrons
16 victories
Wing Commander ROBERT ‘BOB’ DOE DSO DFC*
Pilot on Spitfires with 234 Squadron and Hurricanes with 238 Squadron
14 victories
Flight Lieutenant JOHN ‘JACK’ TOOMBS
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner on Blenheims with 236 Squadron
Throughout August 1940 the second phase of the Battle of Britain was in full swing as the Luftwaffe turned their full attention to the destruction of Fighter Command’s 11 Group airfields. The summer skies over Kent and the south-east of England saw the young RAF fighter pilots in almost continuous action as they sought to repel Goering’s raiders. But, by October, Fighter Command’s tiny force of just under 3,000 had achieved the impossible; against the odds they had halted and repelled the mighty Luftwaffe, then the largest and most modern air force in the world. Hermann Goering and his cronies in German High Command had seriously underestimated the skill, determination and resilience of the men from RAF Fighter Command. A few months before, Hitler had been pouring scorn on Britain for its refusal to surrender; now he was forced to eat his words.
Anthony Saunders’ beautiful painting Back From The Fight transports us to the morning of Monday 12 August 1940, a day when 11 Group airfields at Hawkinge, Manston and Lympne airfields all came under heavy attack from Luftwaffe raiders. With the harvest well under way below them, the Spitfires of 610 Squadron, led by S/Ldr John Ellis, return to re-fuel and re-arm after a tense encounter with Luftwaffe fighters, an engagement in which they were credited with several victories, including two claimed by the Squadron Leader.