Normandy Nemesis

Normandy Nemesis by Robert Taylor
Overall Print Size: 27" x 19 5/8" 
Edition size of 600
S/N by Artist and Two (2) Pilots

Aircraft Type: Spitfire

ROBERT TAYLOR'S NEW VOLUME OF AIR COMBAT PAINTINGS FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION PRINT When Johnnie Johnson led the Mk IX Spitfires of his 144 Canadian Wing to temporary airstrip B.3 near the village of St Croix sur Mer, a few miles inland from the Normandy beach head, they were making history. As they landed on the hastily constructed Summerfield mesh track­ing runway on D-Day plus 9, they became the first Allied air force unit to be based in former occupied Europe, and the first to operate in France after D-Day. Mk IX Spitfires of 443 Squadron RCAF, based at St Croix sur Mer tangle with a group of Fw190s whom they had encountered on a fighter sweep near Alençon, in southern Normandy on 23 June 1944. During the melée that followed, their Squadron Leader, Wally McLeod, quickly destroyed two Fw190s, whilst another Fw190 was badly damaged.

Signed and Numbered by the Artist and two (2) Pilots

• Lieutenant General Avi.Baron MIKE DONNET
• Major HANS-EKKEHARD BOB