RAISING HAVOC IN THE ARDENNES
(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.
(Dimensions)	26" x 21" approx  Framed Print
Price	£125.00

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...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...priced @ £125.00...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.