The Dash for the Beach by Ivan Berryman. (B) SIG2226

The Dash for the Beach by Ivan Berryman. (B) SIG2226DHM6399B. The Dash for the Beach by Ivan Berryman. Two Republic P. 47s of the 78th FG roar low over the Normandy beaches as the Allied invasion gets underway during Operation Overlord on 6th June 1944 as an LCT(5) Tank Landing Craft makes its break for the beach through a hail of enemy fire. These craft were used at all the D Day beaches, carrying mixed loads of vehicles and stores in almost impossible conditions. Large Size Limited edition of 10

British MK1 Grant tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry 8th Armoured Brigade

Royal East Kent Regiment

gathering intelligence over the Soviet nuclear facility at Kamchatka

110 was carrying the top secret Enigma Machine and code book and her capture helped Bletchley Park codebreakers solve Reservehandverfahren

Note that this edition is a slightly different colour to the other edtions of this print

Steaming in company with destroyers Z-28 and Erich Steinbrinck

With twin 700-HP radials this heavily armed aircraft was capable of 301-MPH

its Me109s were superior to the Hurricanes and P-40 Kittyhawks flown by the RAF pilots and

Despite some early problems with instability caused by the dive flaps

Each aircraft carried a personal emblem

Richard Taylors evocative new painting recreates the scene over Pegasus Bridge shortly after D-Day as a pair of P-38 Lightnings thunder inland in support of the advancing allied armies

few realized that it was destined to become one of the enduring symbols of the greatest air battle ever fought