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$210.00

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L/E of 95...$210.00

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25 Artist Proof...$315.00

Overall print size: 30 ½” wide x 23 ½” high
Image size: 26 ½” wide x 17 ½” high

The Limited Editions & Artist Proofs

Printed onto borders that were personally signed over many years, each copy carries the original and authentic autographs of eleven WWII Normandy Veterans:

Sergeant RAYMOND ‘TICH’ RAYNER
2nd Battalion, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry, 6th Airborne Division – Glider No.4 into Pegasus Bridge

Corporal WALTER ‘BABS’ PEARSON
5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, 69th Infantry Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division – first wave to assault Gold Beach

Private CHARLIE HILL
D Company, 6th Battalion Green Howards – first wave to assault Gold Beach

Craftsman ALBERT HOLMSHAW
Royal Engineers attached to the 7th Field Regiment Royal Artillery 3rd Division – landed at Sword Beach on D-Day

Corporal DOUG PARKER
2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – first wave to assault Sword Beach at H-Hour

Corporal GORDON DRABBLE
1/6th South Staffordshire Regiment, 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division – landed at Gold Beach

Trooper DON WALKER
147th “Hampshire” Battalion, Royal Armoured Corps on Churchill Tanks – landed at Gold Beach

Private PATRICK STRAFFORD
D Company, 1/4th Kings Own Light Infantry – landed at Sword Beach

Private BERT COOPER
5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 50th (Northumbrian) Division – first wave to land at Gold Beach

Gunner WILLIAM HARTLEY
27th L.A.A. Regiment as a Driver/Operator – landed in Normandy on D-Day +1

Gunner GEORGE SHARMAN
259th Battery, 65th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, as part of the 7th Armoured Division, ‘The Desert Rats’ – landed at Gold Beach on D-Day

 

Commemorating D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

From the moment the Battle of Britain was over, the Allies had planned for the invasion that would liberate Europe from the tyranny of Hitler’s thuggish Reich. On 6 June 1944 those plans were put into practice on the beaches of Normandy when the world witnessed the largest amphibious landings ever seen. But before the vast Allied armies could storm ashore on D-Day, the flanks of the chosen 50- mile long beach-head had to be secured – and held. The task of seizing the left flank fell to the British 6th Airborne Division whose first objective was to capture the two Orne bridges that controlled access to Sword Beach.

Midnight had scarcely passed when three Horsa gliders swept out of the night to land within yards of the Bénouville Bridge over the Caen canal. Led by Major John Howard, the small force of men drawn from the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry supported by sappers from the Royal Engineers sprang into action. Quickly overcoming the dazed defenders they seized the canal bridge, the nearby bridge over the river was soon also taken without a shot being fired.

Simon Smith’s masterful piece Pegasus Dawn portrays the scene a few days later at the Bénouville Bridge, later renamed ‘Pegasus’ after the British 6th Airborne’s flying horse emblem. Now reinforced by other units, including commandos, the British are in full control of the area, allowing free movement over the canal and river. Overhead Mk.IX Spitfires from 340 (Free French) Squadron RAF, part of 145 Wing, Second Tactical Air Force, provide fighter cover across the area.

Adding great authenticity and in tribute to all those who fought so valiantly throughout the invasion of Normandy, every print carries the original autographs of British veterans who served during the campaign. These include ‘Tich’ Rayner who, as part of the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry, fought to secure Pegasus Bridge in the early hours of D-Day.

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