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With bright yellow spinners and distinctive
twin-booms glinting in the June sunshine, two P-38 Lockheed Lightnings of
the USAAF's 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.
Richard Taylor's 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.
Each print in the edition is signed by
pilots who flew the P-38 in combat in Europe, together with veterans who
fought on D-Day.
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