RAISING HAVOC IN THE ARDENNES...Portfolio Remarque Edition
(Signatures)	Artist : Nicolas Trudgian and A-20 Havoc combat aircrews, including two Silver Star recipients, from World War Two... Major Howard B Aines , Staff Sergeant Donald Bjornson , Captain Jerome M Coe , Captain Narval F Davis , Staff Sergeant Karl Haeuser , Captain John L Minech , Major James R Nicols and Lt Colonel J Duane Wethe it is Additionally signed by : Lt Colonel James F Barkalow , Lt Colonel Gordon Jones and Major Charles D LaMond.. It also comes with the COMPANION PRINT - â??VE DAY - HEADING HOMEâ?? by Nicolas Trudgian which is Signed by : Flight Officer J. Frank Bell , Captain Ralph F. Conte , First Lt. Wayne E. Downing , First Lt. Leonard R. McBride , Lt. Colonel Arthur R. Milow , First Lt. Arthur J. Schuler , Colonel Daniel F. Shea and Colonel Dick Wheeler.
(Dimensions)	26" x 21" approx  Unframed set of two Remarqued prints.
Price	£595.00

Description

It is January 1945, and it's cold. The German advance in the Ardennes is nearly over, but the Panzer Army is desperately throwing more troops into the breach who try to keep their momentum going in The Battle of the Bulge. Tasked with preventing German reinforcements from reaching the battle front, the Ninth Air Force launched a series of low-level attacks on enemy ground forces as they wound their way through the Ardennes. Flying conditions were not easy, cloud bases were low, and snow was in the air. Nicolas Trudgian's painting recreates an attack on January 23, 1945, by Douglas A-20 Havocs of the 410th Bomb Group. Locating an enemy convoy in open space near the German town of Blankenheim, the Havoc pilots make a swift attack diving from 8000 feet, catching the German force by surprise: Hurtling down the line of vehicles at 320mph they release their parafrag bombs from 300 feet then, dropping just above the roofs of the army trucks continue down the column blasting everything in sight with their forward-firing .50mm calibre machine guns. In the space of a few minutes the attack is completed and the convoy decimated. With amuntion expended and fuel running low the A-20 Havoc's climb out of the zone and head for base in France. A 20mm shell has hit the lead aircraft wounding the Bombardier navigator Gordon Jones, which will seriously hamper their return through a blizzard, but all aircraft make it safely home - the lead aircraft, on landing, counting over 100 holes of various sizes. For their part in leading the successful attack the Lead Pilot Russell Fellers and Bombardier navigator Gordon G. Jones received the Silver Star... This is a rare Portfolio Remarque Edition print of only 25 , Signed by the Artist : Nicolas Trudgian and A-20 Havoc combat aircrews, including two Silver Star recipients, from World War Two... Major Howard B Aines , Staff Sergeant Donald Bjornson , Captain Jerome M Coe , Captain Narval F Davis , Staff Sergeant Karl Haeuser , Captain John L Minech , Major James R Nicols and Lt Colonel J Duane Wethe , it is Additionally signed by : Lt Colonel James F Barkalow , Lt Colonel Gordon Jones and Major Charles D LaMond.. It also comes with the COMPANION PRINT VE DAY - HEADING HOME by Nicolas Trudgian which is Signed by : Flight Officer J. Frank Bell , Captain Ralph F. Conte , First Lt. Wayne E. Downing , First Lt. Leonard R. McBride , Lt. Colonel Arthur R. Milow , First Lt. Arthur J. Schuler , Colonel Daniel F. Shea and Colonel Dick Wheeler...priced @ £595.00 for both multi signed prints.