Aircraft – Hurricane

Throughout the long hot summer of 1940 the destiny of the British Isles,indeed the future of Europe, laid in the hands of a small band of young RAF fighter pilots. Against them stood the vast aerial fleets of an all powerful Luftwaffe, gloating and confident from its victories in Polnd, France and the Low Countries. Lying in wait across the channel, anticipating an easy victory by its air force, were the armies of the most powerful tyrant the world had ever known.
With Europe already succumbed to Nazi rule, Britain was alone, the last bastion among free nations to stand against an evil empire bent upon world domination . The battle, the first ever to be fought entirely in the air, would change the course of history, whatever the outcome.
Outnumbered more than five to one at the outset, the odds were heavily stacked against the RAF, the task looked almost hopeless. But as the ferocious aerial battles continued through the long summer months, the tactical skills, devotion and raw courage of the RAF’s young flyers, gradually turned the tide. By September end, the battle was won and the defeated Luftwaffe retired to lick its wounds.
Robert Taylor’s magnificent study of the legendary Hurricane captures wonderfully the spirit of that cataclysmic aerial conflict fought so long ago. Nearest, young pilot officer Geoffrey Page, later to become one of the RAF’s most decorated Aces, powers his Mk I Hurricane over the country lane at the edge of the airfield, as he and his fellow No.56 Squadron pilots make their third scramble of the day to repulse incessant heavy attacks by German aircraft on the RAF airfields of 11 Group, July 1940.

Signed in pencil by the artist Robert Taylor and nineteen Battle of Britain pilots including six Aces; Air Commodore Peter Brothers CBE DSO DFC,
Wing Commander Christopher ‘Bunny’ Currant DSO DFC,
Group Captain Dennis David CBE DFC AFC, Group Captain Billy Drake DSO DFC,
Wing Commander Paul Farnes DFM, Wing Commander Gordon Sinclair OBE DFC, Group Captain John Cunningham CBE DSO DFC AE DL FRAeS, Air Commodore John Ellacombe CB DFC*, Wing Commander Bob Foster DFC, Warrant Officer Peter Fox,
Ft. Lt. Peter Hairs MBE, Squadron Leader Percy Morfill DFM,
Group Captain Alan Murray DFC, Wing Commander Peter Parrott DFC AFC, Group Captain John Peel DFC DSO, Squadron Leader Arthur ‘Bill’ Pond, Squadron Leader Christopher Riddle, Captain Tommy Thompson DFC.

Overall print size: 33" wide x 24" high

HUNTERS OF THE NIGHT - a print of a superb pencil drawing of a Beaufighter in flight by Robert Taylor accompanies ‘Glorious Summer’. This print is signed by two Beaufighter pilots; Air Commodore Cyril Brown CBE AFC AE, Air Vice Marshal Edward Crew CB DSO DFC.
Overall print size 18½ inches wide x 13¼ inches high

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