Dear Collector: As the artist of the aviation art shown on this web page, I cordially invite you to view the images. My intent with my paintings is to be as diverse in subject matter as possible within the framework of World War II aviation, and to show from one project to the other as many points of view as possible. That is, from aerial angles and from the ground. The feedback I am receiving from you is that you like to see something in the print even weeks after you have framed it. For example in UNSCHEDULED ARRIVAL, the troops running away from the train in the background and the flak guns on the train, mostly obscured by the night scene and swirling mist. Someone said they'd counted eighteen people in the picture, all told. Other feedback suggests that many of you would like to see more armor in the pictures. Many others pointed out that aircraft can be just as attractive with gear down as when they're trimmed for flight. I will keep this in mind for future projects.

It was the night of August 25, 1944. 627 Squadron Mosquito pilot Bob Boyden and his navigator Ralph Fenwick had just marked the marshalling yards for an incoming Lancaster raid at Darmstadt, Germany. Bob was down on the deck with throttles wide open, heading home, when he chanced upon a railway station at Kaiserslautern. The Germans didn't have time to react, and still had their lights turned on. The intruder had gone as quickly as it had appeared. A fleeting, dramatic moment in the titanic struggle of war. Signed by three Mosquito pilots: F/O Bob Boyden, D.F.C. and Bar Wing Commander Jack Meadows, D.F.C., A.F.C., A.E. F/Lt Marie Wright Print

Information: Unscheduled Arrival is sold out, SMO

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