Peter Hill
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Enrolled nurse, lives in the Wimmera, Victoria. Paints a lot as a hobby.
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My latest painting completed tonight.
Grumman F6F Hellcat US Navy during the Battle of the Philippine Sea June 1944.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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Painting l did in 2015.
If you recognise this aircraft, we can be friends. 🙂
Acrylic on paper 45 x 65 cm
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In memory of Roy Cross (1924-2024), the British aviation artist who passed away earlier this year, only one day after celebrating his 100th birthday. Cross is most famous for the many box top illustrations he created for Airfix plastic model kits in the 1960s & 70s.
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Painting l did in 2013 (Christ that’s 11 years ago?!!!)
Arado 234 having an encounter with a P-51 in late 1944.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 65 cm.
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Painting l did in 2021.
Vought F4U Corsair of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm off the coast of Japan in July 1945.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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1/: Drawing l did in 2019.
On April 9, 1942, the Japanese Kido-Butai carrier fleet launched their second air attack on the British-controlled island of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), following their first strike on Easter Sunday-April 5. At around 0800, a formation of 132 Japanese planes-
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Beautiful oil painting by American aviation artist William S. Phillips entitled ‘Dauntlesses against the Rising Sun’
This work depicts Douglas SBD Dauntlesses of Scouting-Six from USS Enterprise on a dawn reconnaissance on June 4, 1942, the morning of the Battle of Midway.
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Painting l did in 2021.
F4U Corsair providing air support to the Battle of Peleliu October 1944.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29 cm.
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Painting l did in 2016.
Sopwith Camel trench strafer 1918.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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Painting l did in 2022.
Bouton-Paul Defiant nightfighter, 1941.
Oil on canvas 60 x 50cm.
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1/4: Painting l did back in 2013.
Heinkel He 162 Salamander, also known as the Volksjager. Only a few saw any action before Germany surrendered. One unit of the Luftwaffe, JG-1, received the new jet in mid-April 1945. The unit’s activities were focused on
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Painting l did in 2020.
Westland Lysander.
Acrylic on paper 29 x 40cm
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Painting l did in 2014.
Commission for a buyer whose father had a long career in the Royal Australian Navy. The buyer asked me to include all 11 RAN vessels that his father had served on.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 65cm
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Painting l did in 2013.
Free French-flown Bristol Blenheim IV medium bombers over North Africa 1941. Painting l did as a tribute to the Roy Cross box art for the old Airfix kit of the Blenheim IV.
Gouache acrylic on paper 40 x 65cm
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Latest aviation painting completed tonight.
McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom, Vietnam.
Acrylic on paper 29 x 40cm
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The last Fairey Battle to leave France in 1940.
A Battle belonging to No 88 Squadron of the Advanced Air Striking Force was damaged in action and the pilot force-landed at the small grass airfield at Poitiers. The plane was unserviceable and the crew abandoned it, returning to
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‘First Kill’ - oil painting by Roy Grinnell (1933-2019).
This work portrays the PZL P-11c of Polish pilot Lt Wladek Gnys of the 121st Fighter Escadrille. Between 5.30-7.00am on 1 Sept 1939, Gnys destroyed two Dornier Do-17E bombers, the first Allied air victories of WW2.
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Painting l did in 2018.
Close encounter between an RAF Coastal Command Catalina and a German Heinkel He-115 over the Bay of Biscay, 1943.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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1/2: Late in the morning of Dec 7, 1941 a pair of Curtiss SOC Seagull reconnaissance seaplanes launched from the cruiser USS Northampton were flying west of the island of Kauai when they were attacked by a Japanese Zero returning from the Pearl Harbour attack.
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Painting l did in 2019.
Dornier Do-335 Pfeil (Arrow), a high performance German fighter-bomber produced in the final phase of WW2. Only 11 combat versions were delivered before the end of the war. A few Allied pilots claimed to have had encounters with Do-335s in April 1945.
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Superb oil by American maritime & naval aviation artist Robert Grant Smith (1914-2001) (aka R. G. Smith). ‘The Famous Four Minutes’ (1968) portrays the bombing of the Japanese carrier Akagi by Lt Richard Best & his two wingmen during the Battle of Midway June 4, 1942.
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Painting l did in 2019.
Italian Fiat CR.42 Falco of the Regia Aeronautica. On 8th Aug 1940, 16 CR.42s of 4th Stormo engaged 14 Gloster Gladiators of 80 Sqd south of Tobruk, Libya. Four CR.42s and two Gladiators were shot down in the melee.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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Painting l did in 2019.
Bristol Beaufort of the Royal Australian Air Force, 1942. A total of 700 Beauforts were built under license by DAP in Australia and they equipped 19 RAAF Squadrons 1942-45 in the Pacific. One notable action was the Battle of Bismarck Sea in March 1943.
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This one was one of 7 paintings l sold this weekend at the Horsham art fair. IAR-81. Oil on canvas 40 x 50cm. No idea who purchased it but thanks very much to them!
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Painting l did in 2021.
Henschel Hs-219 in action as a tank-buster on the Eastern Front in 1944.
Acrylic on paper 29 x 40cm.
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Painting l did in 2019.
Handley-Page Halifax heavy bomber, RAF Bomber Command 1943.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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Painting l did in 2022.
Red Air Force Yak fighter, Eastern Front 1943.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm.
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Painting l did in 2019.
Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu (Dragonslayer) twin-engine heavy fighter, known to the Allies as the ‘Nick’. Intended as a long-range escort, it was assigned to home defence and anti-shipping attacks after proving inadequate against Allied single engine fighters.
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1/2: Painting l did in 2021.
Handley-Page Heyford, the last biplane heavy bomber to serve with the Royal Air-Force. Entering operational service in 1933, the Heyford equipped 9 RAF squadrons by late 1936. The Heyford began to be phased out of service in 1937, the final examples -
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Painting l did in 2022.
A volunteer of the Observer Corps is startled by a pair of low-flying Dorniers over Kent August 1940.
Acrylic on paper 29 x 40cm.
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Painting l did in 2020.
Macchi MC.202, Italian fighter of the Regia Aeronautica in action over Libya 1942.
Acrylic on paper 29 x 40 cm
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Painting l did in 2016.
I called this one ‘first solo’
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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@drivelcast
@vizcomic
Another was ‘annoy your neighbour by buying the same brand and model television that he owns and then hide outside his living room window with the remote control and change his channels’
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Painting l did in 2014.
Italian Regia Aeronautica Fiat CR.42 surprising an LRDG patrol North Africa 1942. I read that LRDG/SAS teams feared the CR.42 more than modern Axis fighters because the biplanes were quieter and could creep up on them low & slow without stalling.
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‘Rear Gunner, Halifax Bomber’ by Dennis Adams. Oil on canvas, 1944. Collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT.
Adams (1914-2001) was an Australian official war artist during the latter phase of WW2 (earlier in the war, he was employed as a camouflage painter).
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Painting l did in 2021.
Bristol Beaufighter nightfighter off the coast of Italy 1944.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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My latest acrylic completed tonight.
Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 BoB.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm.
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Painting l did in 2013.
Red Air Force Polikarpov I-16 near the Leningrad Front in the winter of 1941-42. Russian pilots nicknamed it ‘Ishak’ (Donkey). Despite its increasing obsolescence, the I-16 remained a frontline fighter until 1943.
Acrylic on paper 45 x 65 cm
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Oil painting l did in 2023.
Royal Air Force Mustang.
Oil on canvas 40 x 50cm.
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1/: Aeronca 65T over Pearl Harbour, Dec 7, 1941.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
Painting l did back in 2019.
When the Japanese first wave began arriving over Oahu shortly before 0800 on Dec 7, there were six civilian aircraft in the air, all belonging to the three private flying -->
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Painting l did in 2020.
Messerschmitt Me-262A.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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Another painting by Austrian official war artist Max Elder von Poosch. ‘D3 Squadron over the Brenta’.
Oil on canvas, 1917. Collection of the Museum of Military History, Vienna.
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The aviation works I’ve included in my display at the Horsham east rotary art fair which opens tomorrow night.
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@rgpoulussen
Similar to when the Japanese surrender delegation landed on Le Shima atoll on 19 Aug 1945. One young officer tried to present a bouquet of flowers to the US officers who greeted the plane but the latter refused to accept them. He then awkwardly wondered what to do with them.
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‘Halifax & Hurricane’ by Walter T. Monnington. Oil on canvas, 1943. Collection of the Imperial War Museum, London.
Monnington (1902-1976) was a British official war artist during WW2. He did this work while visiting an RAF Halifax training squadron based in Yorkshire in 1943.
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Painting l did in 2017.
Lend-Lease Curtiss P-40E of the Red Air Force in 1943. Over 2,400 P-40s of various models served on the eastern Front during WW2. Russian pilots rated the P-40 as generally inferior to the Bell P-39 which served with the Red Air Force in greater numbers.
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Painting l did in 2022.
The Avia S-199, a fighter comprised of leftover Czech-built Messerschmitt BF-109G airframes (leftover at the end of WW2) and fitted with a Junkers-Jumo 211F engine (as no Daimler-Benz engines were available). Israeli agents purchased 23 examples in 1948-
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New acrylic completed today.
Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero engaging a Boeing B-17D over the Philippines December 1941.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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Latest acrylic finished tonight.
Hawker Hurricane Mk-IIc, Burma 1944.
Acrylic on paper, 40 x 29cm
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Large oil l painted about 8 years ago. BE2c engaging a Zeppelin over London in 1916.
Oil on canvas 90 x 65 cm.
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My latest acrylic, a Fairey Battle in May 1940, is nearing completion.
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Another oil I’ve completed this week. I’ve never painted a maritime subject set in the days of sail before.
Oil on canvas 60 x 75 cm
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Painting l did in 2018.
Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki (‘Devil Queller’), known to the Allies as the ‘Tojo’. Heavy fighter that served with the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF). It was one of the very few Japanese fighters that could match allied types in rates of climb & dive.
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‘Downed Enemy Plane’ by Max Edler von Poosch. Oil on canvas, 1917. Collection of National Military Museum, Vienna.
Von Poosch (1872-1968) was an Austrian official war artist during the Great War. He produced this work of a crashed Italian Nieuport fighter in the Alps.
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Painting l did in 2020.
Hawker Hurricane Mk-IIc, Burma 1944.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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Did both of these in 2017. I sold the first one on eBay but the bidder who came second contacted me and asked to paint a similar version. Looking at these now, l honestly can’t remember which one l painted first! 🙂
Both acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm. Macchi 202 versus Hurricane.
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2/4 training but at that stage of the war, sorties were very likely to encounter Allied aircraft. Structural and mechanical problems caused 11 Salamanders to crash, killing 10 pilots. An additional two were lost in crashes during attempted glide landings after the fuel ran out.
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Working this afternoon on a new oil for an upcoming art show. Avro Manchesters on a night raid in 1941. The ghostly bomber in the upper left is going to be changed, I’m not happy with the positioning of it.
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Painting l did in 2020.
Snub-nose Mk.1 Bristol Blenheim. A number of Mk.1s saw action with the RAF Air Component in France and No 2 Group Bomber Command during the Phoney War 1939-40. Mk.1s saw action with Fighter Command during the BoB in 1940.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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1/2: Painting l did in 2020.
Curtiss P-36 of Lt Harry W. Brown, 47th Pursuit Squadron USAAC. During the Pearl Harbour attack on 7 Dec 1941, Brown took off from Haleiwa Field. Brown was officially credited with two successes from his sortie (his tally reached 7 later in the war).
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Drawing l did in 2017.
Fleet Air Arm Fairey Fulmar engaging a Japanese Nakajima B5N off the coast of Ceylon April 1942.
Pencil on paper, 40 x 29cm
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Painting l did in 2016.
RFC pilot about to fly a sortie in a Sopwith Pup early 1917.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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One of my old ones, from back in 2003.
F-4 Phantom being chased by a MiG-17, Vietnam.
Gouache acrylic on paper 40 x 65cm
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‘Swordfish Attacking Bismarck’ (1978) -oil painting by Alan Fearnley. The British artist (b. 1942) is best known for his automotive & railway art but he also does aviation & maritime subjects such as this one depicting Swordfish of HMS Ark Royal attacking the Bismarck in 1941.
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Painting l did in 2021.
A US Marine on guard duty at the height of winter in Korea in 1951 watches a low level MiG versus Sabre engagement.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm.
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- order to rest, replenish & prepare for a new operation scheduled for early June. The operation would involve a pair of tiny atolls in the central Pacific known as Midway.
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1/: Drawing l did in 2019.
US-Navy SBD Dauntless dive-bomber during the attack on the Japanese aircraft-carrier Hiryu on the afternoon of June 4, 1942 during the Battle of Midway.
After three Japanese carriers were fatally damaged by SBD dive-bombers from USS Enterprise & USS-
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Acrylic l did in 2020.
Red Air Force Spitfire Mk IX. Over 1,200 Spitfire 9s served with the Russian air-force from 1943. Russian pilots liked its handling but its undercarriage proved unsuited to the rugged forward airfields. Russian AA-gunners often mistook it for BF-109s.
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1/: Drawing l did in 2019.
Fairey Battle, 1940.
One common misconception is that after the disastrous losses suffered by the Battle squadrons of the Advanced Air Striking Force on 14 May 1940, the Battle’s part in the Battle of France was all but over.
On 14 May, in attacks-
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Update on the Manchester painting, happier with the composition now. Still some work to do on it, will post another image when completed.
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‘Night Bombers over Berlin 1943’ by Alan Moore. Oil on canvas, 1962. Collection of the Australian War Memorial.
Moore (1914-2015) was an official Australian war artist who witnessed the campaigns in New Guinea, Italy & Germany. His work was influenced by Cubism & Surrealism.
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Artist Jack Fellows did a much better job of portraying the incident than l did. 👍🙂
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Painting l did in 2020.
Curtiss P-40B of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) aka the ‘Flying Tigers’ in action over China, 1940.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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3/: -storage tanks, starting a blaze that lasted for days. Escorting Zero fighters shot down 9 of the 23 British fighters that intercepted the raid. Four Japanese aircraft were shot down including 2 Zeros destroyed by Mk-2 Hawker Hurricanes of 261 Squadron. As the first wave-
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Hungarian Heinkel He-112 fighter in action over Russia in the summer of 1941. The 5th Fighter Group of the Romanian Air Force included two squadrons of He-112s. These units saw action on the opening day of Operation Barbarossa June 22, 1941.
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4/4. was not allowed, instead credited to a flak unit but the Typhoon pilot, who was captured, told the Germans it was the jet that had got him. Kirchner was shot down and killed later that day by a Tempest flown by F/O Geoffrey Walkington.
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My latest painting completed tonight.
Romanian Messerschmitt BF-109G, 1944.
Acrylic on paper 29 x 40cm.
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2/:-launched from Admiral Nagumo’s 5 fleet carriers attacked the port & airbase on Trincomalee. A merchant vessel was destroyed and an RN monitor badly damaged. The port was heavily bombed, some 85 dock workers were killed. One damaged Japanese aircraft dived into the large oil-
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Acrylic l did back in 2020. I remember working on this one in public during an art fair held just prior to the Covid lockdowns. Hawker Hurricane during the Battle of France, May 1940.
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Terrific cover art for a Fleetway Picture Library Air Ace issue by Graham Coton.
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Acrylic l did in 2018. Mitsubishi J2M Raiden. Of the 414 Boeing B-29s lost on bombing missions over Japan 1944-45, 74 were lost to Japanese fighter attack, 57 to anti-aircraft fire and 19 to a combination of both. The remainder were non-combat losses.
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@culturaltutor
Lighthouse at Two Lights (1929) by Edward Hopper.
Cape Elizabeth lighthouse, Maine USA.
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Painting l did in 2019.
Mitsubishi J2M Raiden during the action over the Kanto Plains, Japan. One of the final aerial battles of the war which took place on 15 Aug 1945, only two hours prior to the official ceasefire. Four Japanese & four US planes were lost.
Acrylic-40 x 29cm
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6/: -attacked, about 30 Aichi D3A dive-bombers struck the Hermes inflicting multiple bomb hits. The ship sank within 30 minutes, taking 307 of her crew with her. Destroyer Vampire took at least 4 hits, breaking in half and sinking with 8 of her crew lost. A nearby tanker SS-
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Painting l did in 2017- a commission for a US buyer, one of a series of paintings portraying Lend-Lease aircraft of the Red Air Force during WW2. Bell P-63 Kingcobra achieving its first victory in the Pacific theatre over a Nakajima Ki-43 off the coast of Nth Korea 15 Aug 1945.
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12/: -the Kido Butai’s biggest weakness) and most of the Blenheims managed to complete their bomb runs over the Akagi. It was the first time in the Pacific War, a Japanese capital vessel had been attacked by Allied aircraft. The Akagi was rocked by several near misses and Nagumo-
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3/4. Two He-162s were shot down by Allied fighters, one credited to a Hawker Tempest. Salamander pilots made a number of claims but very few, if any, can be confirmed or matched with Allied loss records. On 19 April, Feldwebel Gunther Kirchner claimed a Hawker Typhoon. The claim
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4/: -headed back to their carriers, Nagumo ordered a second wave launched, this force to attack the British carrier HMS Hermes & escorting destroyer HMAS Vampire sighted south-east off the coast of Trincomalee. The 2nd wave comprised 53 dive bombers and an escort of 32 Zeros.-
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5/: -upon hearing of the first wave attack on the port, the Hermes captain reversed course and headed north, hoping to benefit from fighter cover from inland (the carrier had no aircraft aboard aside from two disabled Fairey Swordfish). It was too late. At 1035, the Japanese-
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The terrific work of Argentinian artist Jose Maria Jorge (1940-2010) who worked for Commando comics 1969-2010. He drew the interior art for 163 issues with his distinctively precise & detailed style.
This image is from Commando issue 1168 ‘Thunderbolt’ released in 1977.
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Actress Daisy Ridley is the grand-niece of actor/playwright Arnold Ridley who played the role of private Godfrey in the BBC sitcom Dads Army and was a decorated & twice-wounded veteran of WW1.
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Latest acrylic completed last night.
Boeing P-26B over Oahu 1940.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm.
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‘Battle For Britain’ - oil on canvas by David Shepherd (1931-2017).
Shepherd, a British artist, is best known for his wildlife & landscape work but he also did aviation & railway works including this one inspired by his memories of witnessing the Battle of Britain as a 9-yr-old.
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Painting l did in 2014.
Spitfire Mk.V with clipped wings engaging FW-190As over northern France in the winter of 1941.
Acrylic (gouache) on paper 45 x 70cm
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‘Dogfight’ by Rudolf Stark. Watercolour on paper, 1920. Stark (1897- ?) was a German pilot during WW1 credited with at least 11 Allied aircraft. A talented artist he produced watercolours after the war based on his memories as a pilot. Stark wrote a book Wings of War in 1933.
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Completed tonight.
Hawker Typhoon versus Me-410.
Acrylic on paper 40 x 29cm
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11/: -attack. The Blenheims were spotted by lookouts on the Japanese carriers at 1020, nearly too late. Zeros on combat air patrol intercepted the bombers as they made their runs over their chosen target, Nagumo’s flagship, the carrier Akagi. Anti-aircraft fire was weak (it was-
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