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Robert Taylor


A Time for Heroes

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Item#:  22716

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Royal Air Force and Royal Navy fighter aircrews flew combat throughout the sixlong years of World War Two. At the outbreak of war in 1939 four RAF Hurricanesquadrons and two equipped with Gladiators went immediately to France where inshort time New Zealander Cobber Kain became the first Allied Ace of the war. InApril 1940 Hurricanes and Gladiators saw in action in Norway, when RhodesianCaesar Hull of 263 Squadron became the second air Ace.By the fall of France the new Spitfire joined in the great air battles over the Channelas the British Expeditionary Force evacuated Dunkirk. Bob Stanford -Tuck, DouglasBader, Peter Townsend, Sailor Malan, and many other great Aces gained their firstvictories, but with German forces massing on the French coast, the invasion ofBritain looked imminent. Only RAF Fighter Command stood in Hitler's way.By July, the most famous of all air battles had begun. The next three months, underglorious summer skies, saw the most decisive and continual aerial fighting in history.The British victory in the Battle of Britain was to fundamentally change the courseof the war and, ultimately, the course of history.But there were four and a half more years of air battles still to be fought and won -fromthe English Channel Front to the North African desert, from the Mediterraneanto Far East Asia. It fell to Fleet Air Arm pilots to see the last air fighting for Britishand Commonwealth pilots, by then equipped with Seafires and American Corsairsand Hellcats, as they took part in the final assaults on the Japanese mainland. As thelast embers of hostilities faded into history the centuries old doctrine of maritimesupremacy had gone. Now the aircraft ruled.In his masterful painting A Time For Heroes Robert Taylor pays tribute to the WorldWar II fighter aircrews of the RAF and Fleet Air Arm. A panoramic scene from theera of the Battle of Britain shows Mk I Spitfires of 234 Squadron, 10 Group's topscoring squadron, returning to St. Eval after intercepting heavy raids on south coastports during the heaviest fighting, in September 1940. St. Michael's Mount, thecastle built on the site of a 14th Century monastery to defend Britain's shores fromearlier enemies, provides a symbolic backdrop as once again a band of brothers iscalled upon to defend their Sceptred Isle.

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The Battle of Britain Edition individually numbered 1-500 and signed by
Group Captain TOM DALTON MORGAN
Wing Commander BOB DOE
Wing Commander GEORGE 'Grumpy' UNWIN

The Fighter Pilots Edition individually numbered 1-250 with additional signatures of
Squadron Leader NEVILLE DUKE
Wing Commander JOHN FREEBORN
Commander MIKE CROSLEY (companion print)
Flight Lieutenant JOHN SQUIER
Lieutenant Commander PETER MEADWAY (companion print)
Squadron Leader MAHINDER PUJJI

The Veterans Proofs individually numbered 1- 75
with all the signatures and components of
theFighter Pilots Edition is issued with the collector print 'LONE GLADIATOR', from an exquisite drawing by Robert Taylor.

Each proof is matted and includes the original signatures of
Air Marshal SIR DENIS CROWLEY-MILLING
Air Commodore PETE BROTHERS
Air Vice-Marshal JOHNNIE JOHNSON
Wing Commander HARBOURNE STEPHENS
Group Captain PETER TOWNSEND.

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