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A rare Robert Taylor edition featuring Stuka dive bombers over the Mediterranean and signed by 4 highly decorated Stuka pilots...At 0426 hours on 1st September 1939, three Ju87Bs of 3 Staffel, Stukageschwader 1 took off from Elbing to record the first bombing mission of World War Two. It marked the beginning of six years of relentless endeavour by the notorious Stuka and its courageous crews. Following its success in the Polish and French ‘Blitzrieg’ campaigns the Stuka was seen by the German High Command as the supreme new weapon to succeed long range artillery. With its banshee-like wailing siren the Stuka pilots would deliver destruction from the skies and create a devastating psychological effect upon all those below. The Stuka when dressed for war was an awesome spectacle. Robert Taylor’s outstanding painting shows a formation of Ju87’s bombed up and fitted with long range tanks heading out on a shipping strike over the Mediterranean in 1941...Each print individually signed by the artist Robert Taylor and FOUR Stuka Aces : Helmut Fickel , Franz Kieslich , Kurt Kuhlmey and Hans-Karl Stepp...This print has been beautifully framed and has a superb Hoffman picture postcard which is postwar signed by the great Stuka Ace ' Hans-Ulrich Rudel ' mounted in the mounts also mounted are his 4 squadron badges...priced @ £995.00...To complement the purchase of your fine art print, we are now able to offer a professional Picture Framing service. For further details please contact us by phone or email.