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| Raining Fire by Ivan Berryman. (PC)
Flying impossibly low en route to the Sorpe Dam on the night of 16th/17th May 1943 as part of Operation Chastise, Flight Sergeant Ken Brown's Lancaster ED918(G) encountered a number of German trains. On three occasions, AJ-F's nose and tail gunners (Sgt D Allaston, front and F/Sgt G S MacDonald, rear) opened fire, pouring shells and hot tracer rounds into the lumbering locomotive and its rolling stock, wreaking havoc along the way. ED918(G) eventually arrived at the Sorpe Dam at 3.00am where it successfully released its Upkeep bomb, but without breaching the dam. Brown and his crew returned safely, their aircraft riddled with holes, perhaps partially due to their route home taking them over the breached Mohne Dam, where they briefly exchanged gunfire with the German batteries there.
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| Item Code : DHM1959PC | Raining Fire by Ivan Berryman. (PC) - This Edition | |
| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | POSTCARD | Collector's Postcard - Restricted Initial Print Run of 100 cards.
| Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm) | none | | £2.70 |
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Other editions of this item : | Raining Fire by Ivan Berryman. | DHM1959 |
| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. | Image size 11.5 inches x 8 inches (30cm x 21cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | £20 Off! | Now : £40.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ARTIST PROOF | Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. | Image size 11.5 inches x 8 inches (30cm x 21cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | £10 Off! | Now : £65.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ARTIST PROOF | Large size limited edition of 5 artist proofs. | Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | | £220.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Presentation edition of 5 prints. | Image size 12 inches x 9 inches (31cm x 23cm) | Sutherland, Frederick E (clipped) McDonald, Grant S (clipped) Johnson, George L (clipped) + Artist : Ivan Berryman
Signature(s) value alone : £135 | | £300.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Large size signed limited edition of 20 giclee art prints. | Image size 26 inches x 16 inches (66cm x 41cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | | £180.00 | VIEW EDITION... | GICLEE CANVAS | Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. | Size 36 inches x 26 inches (91cm x 66cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman on separate certificate | £100 Off! | Now : £500.00 | VIEW EDITION... | GICLEE CANVAS | Limited edition of up to 50 giclee canvas prints. | Size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman on separate certificate | £100 Off! | Now : £400.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ORIGINAL PAINTING | Original painting, oil on canvas by Ivan Berryman.
SOLD | Size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | | SOLD OUT | VIEW EDITION... |
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Extra Details : Raining Fire by Ivan Berryman. (PC) | About all editions : | The back of the postcard.
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The Aircraft : | Name | Info | Lancaster | The Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' "Operation Gomorrah" in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992. |
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