DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT...SCHNAUFER & SAYN-WITTGENSTEIN TRIBUTE EDITION
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DANGEROUS MOONLIGHT...SCHNAUFER & SAYN-WITTGENSTEIN TRIBUTE EDITION

(Signatures)

Artist : Nicolas Trudgian , Gunther Bahr Knights Cross , Ludwig Meister Knights Cross , Martin Drewes Knights Cross with Oakleaves , Hubert Rauh Knights Cross , Wolfgang Falck Knights Cross , Johannes Richter Knights Cross , Georg-Hermann Greiner Knight Cross with Oakleaves and Friedrich Rumpelhardt Knights Cross ...plus the matted Original wartime signatures in Ink of Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer Knights Cross Oakleaves Swords and Diamonds the highest scoring Nightfighter Ace in History and Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein Knights Cross Oakleaves and Swords the third highest scoring Nightfighter Ace in History.

(Dimensions)

35" x 25" approx  Mounted Print with matted signatures
Price £1195.00

Description

The Luftwaffe's night-fighting campaign began in July 1940 when an RAF Whitley bomber fell to the guns of an Me110 flown by Werner Streib of the new, dedicated night-fighting unit NJG1. Their further successes led to other units being formed, but NJG1 always remained the most feared night force...Equipped with the latest radar technology enabling a form of night vision, NJG1 caused terrible losses to the RAF's bomber aircraft and crews. The four highest-scoring night fighters were Werner Streib whose total was 65 , Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein with 83 , Helmut Lent on 102 , and the greatest of them all , Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer , who achieved 121... Another ' Experte ' was Martin Drewes who took command of III NJG 1 in March 1944. It is his aircraft that is depicted in this painting...On the bright , moonlit night of 30th March 1944 more than 800 RAF bombers set off to raid Nurenberg. Martin Drewes , flying his Me110G , scrambled to meet them and was able to spot the first of his targets without using radar as it was silhouetted against the silvery clouds. He attacked the Lancaster, from the Australian 467 Squadron , using his " Schrage-Musik '' upward firing guns and went on to shoot down a further two bombers before returning to base... By dawn , 96 RAF aircraft had been shot down , which was the greatest loss suffered by Bomber Command on any one night in the entire war. By the end of the hostilities , NJG1 had achieved a sobering total of 2311 victories , making them by far the most potent night fighter unit... '' This is a very fine painting of my Me110 " , and I am pleased to see that it correctly shows my personalised 'MD' markings'' Martin Drewes Knights Cross with Oakleaves... Editions : The SCHNAUFER & SAYN-WITTGENSTEIN TRIBUTE EDITION of only 5 copies Worldwide signed by the Artist Nicolas Trudgian and the eight Nachtjagdgeschwader Aces of the NJG 1 Edition ...Some of these signatures are extremely rare and unrepeatable as most were collected between the 1980s and 1990s ..Gunther Bahr Knights Cross , Ludwig Meister Knights Cross , Martin Drewes Knights Cross with Oakleaves , Hubert Rauh Knights Cross , Wolfgang Falck Knights Cross , Johannes Richter Knights Cross , Georg-Hermann Greiner Knight Cross with Oakleaves and Friedrich Rumpelhardt Knights Cross ...plus the matted Original wartime signatures in Ink of Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer Knights Cross Oakleaves Swords and Diamonds the highest scoring Nightfighter Ace in History and Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein Knights Cross Oakleaves and Swords the third highest scoring Nightfighter Ace in History...priced @ £1195.00...Printed in light fast inks on acid free archival paper...The Tribute edition comes with laser copy signatures matted in the mount and the wartime signatures separate in a protective folder...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.

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