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First Strike on Berlin
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Nicolas Trudgian
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Size: 35" x 24"
Edition: 600
Subject: B-17s under attack from FW190s of JG1.
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The first successful daylight raid on Berlin. Nicolas Trudgian's painting relives the fearsome aerial combat on March 6, 1944, as B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 100th B.G. are attacked. Screaming in head-on, Fw190s of II./JG I charge into the bomber stream. With throttles wide open, 56th Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolts come hurtling down to intercept. B-17 gunners are working overtime; the air is full of cordite, smoke, jagged pieces of flying metal and hot lead. We are in the midst of one of the fiercest aerial battles of the war.
Each print in Nicolas Trudgian's Limited Edition, First Strike On Berlin, is signed by a P-47 Ace who flew escort missions to Berlin and two pilots from the Bloody One Hundredth, who flew their B-17s to Berlin on March 6, 1944:
Colonel Morton Magoffin
Captain C.B. Red Harper
First Lieutenant Ed McKay.
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£110.00
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