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Guardians of the Beaches by Ivan Berryman. Seen here in company with other 485 Sqn machines, Spitfire Mk.IXc ML407 is depicted over the Normandy beaches shortly after D-Day. Flown by New Zealander Fl Lt Johnnie Houlton, this aircraft claimed a Ju.88 on 6th June and shared in the destruction of another on the same day. Coded 'V' in honour of his wife, Vickie, ML407 is still flying today, now converted to a two-seater and regularly displayed by Carolyn Grace. |
Loire Rendezvous by Philip West. Lysanders of 161 Special Operations Squadron turn onto their final course to a clandestine landing field somewhere in central occupied France during a full moon period in 1943. Based at Tempsford, Bedfordshire and often operating from Tangmere to shorten the flight, the pilots flew a dead reckoning course to their first turning point, usually on the River Loire, using rudimentary navigating equipment. The moonlit town of Blois is easily distinguishable by its chateau, churches and bridge with the Forest of Chambord beyond. The agents in the rear cockpit prepare themselves by torchlight for the forthcoming landing. |
Piper Bill, Pegasus Bridge, Normandy, 13.00hrs, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade, led by Lord Lovat, are piped past the defenders of the Caen canal (Pegasus) bridge by piper Bill Millin. The bridge was originally taken in a coup de main attack by the gliders of 6th Airborne Divisions D Company, 2nd battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, led by Major John Howard earlier that morning. Shortly afterwards the glider troops were reinforced by 7 Parachute Battalion, and together they held the area against German attacks until the main British forces landing at Sword beach could fight through to join them. |
Tactical Support by Richard Taylor. With bright yellow spinners and distinctive twin-booms glinting in the June sunshine, two P-38 Lockheed Lightnings of the USAAFs 79th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group hurtle low over Pegasus Bridge as they race across the Normandy landscape shortly after the D-Day landings, June 1944. Flying from their base at Kings Cliffe in Cambridgeshire they have today been tasked to support the advancing allied forces; they will strafe and bomb the enemy lines, destroying enemy communications, armour and ground targets, causing as much chaos and disruption as they can. Dangerous work, these low-level missions, but tasks that the tough P-38 pilots relish. A few days before, the bridge below had witnessed a very different scene. The first action on D-Day happened here when, moments after midnight on the night of 5th - 6th June, three gliders swooped silently from the sky to land within yards of their target - this vital road bridge across the Caen canal. Major John Howard and men of the 6th British Airborne Division were to seize and hold this strategic point. After a brief but furious fire-fight the stunned German defenders were overwhelmed and the bridge captured. The Invasion of France had begun, and for the Germans it was the beginning of the end. Hitlers much vaunted armies had begun their slow bitter retreat to the end that was the burning hell of Berlin. When it came to hammering German ground forces in the days after D-Day, Lockheeds outstanding P-38 Lightning gained an awesome reputation. 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. Below, signs of the recent action are still plainly visible as trucks and their exhausted drivers hasten back to the beach-head to collect reinforcements. |
Tribute to Air Vice Marshal James Edgar 'Johnnie' Johnson by Ivan Berryman. Pictured above the beaches of Normandy shortly after D-Day in June 1944, Spitfire Mk IX MK392 was the personal aircraft of Wing Commander Johnnie Johnson, carrying his initials JE-J instead of the usual squadron codes. He went on to become Britain's highest scoring ace against the Luftwaffe with 34 claimed victories with many other probable victories. |
Wing Commander J R Baldwin by Ivan Berryman. Britain's highest scoring Typhoon ace, Wing Commander J R Baldwin sweeps above Utah Beach on a sortie in support of the Allied forces' drive into mainland Europe following D-Day in June 1944. He is shown flying one of his personal aircraft, Typhoon 1b MN935 'JBII'. |
A View of Yport, Normandy by Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg Jr. (GL) No text for this item |
Bord de la Seine a Lavacourt, 1878 by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
Coin dEtang a Montgeron, 1876 by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
Glacons a Bennecourt by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
La Plage de Juan-les-Pins by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
Cliff of the Porte DAval by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
Route de Giverny en Hiver by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
Fleurs a Vetheuil, 1880 by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
Le Bassin DArgenteuil, 1875 by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
Sainte-Adresse, 1873 by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
La Promenade DArgenteuil by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
The Seine Near Vetheuil, 1878 by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
Vue De L Ile de La Cite Avec La Sainte Chapelle by Orazio Grevenbroeck. (GS) No text for this item |
Effet de Soleil Couchant Sur La Seine at Port-Ville, 1883 by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
Les Bords de la Seine a la Grande Jatte by Claude Monet. (GS) No text for this item |
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