| Item Code : DHM2614 | Schweinfurt - The Second Mission by Robert Taylor. - This Edition | |
| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 500 prints, with 3 signatures.
| Print paper size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm) | McLaughlin, J Kemp Klint, Wilbur Bud Noack, John P + Artist : Robert Taylor
Signature(s) value alone : £75 | £50 Off! | Now : £210.00 |
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Other editions of this item : | Schweinfurt - The Second Mission by Robert Taylor. | DHM2614 |
| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | ARTIST PROOF | Limited edition of 25 artist proofs, with 10 signatures. | Print paper size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm) | Bird, Frederick J Goetz, Jack R Higgins, Malcolm H Martin, Bill E McGinnis, Roy C Mullinax, James A Pete Roberts, Ben McLaughlin, J Kemp Klint, Wilbur Bud Noack, John P + Artist : Robert Taylor
Signature(s) value alone : £260 | £50 Off! | Now : £325.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Schweinfurt limited edition of 325 prints, with 10 signatures. | Print paper size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm) | Bird, Frederick J Goetz, Jack R Higgins, Malcolm H Martin, Bill E McGinnis, Roy C Mullinax, James A Pete Roberts, Ben McLaughlin, J Kemp Klint, Wilbur Bud Noack, John P + Artist : Robert Taylor
Signature(s) value alone : £260 | £50 Off! | Now : £275.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Limited edition of 125 commemorative proofs, with 24 signatures.
SOLD OUT (February 2010) | Print paper size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm) | Bird, Frederick J Goetz, Jack R Higgins, Malcolm H Martin, Bill E McGinnis, Roy C Mullinax, James A Pete Roberts, Ben Coberly, Jat G Bason, Earl G Davidson, Roy G Fisher, Marshall L Fox, Edward K Millson, Ed Parks, Thomas A Rickel, Robert Roberts, George G Scarborough, John Slane, Robert M Springer, Donald Tessien, Henry E Denz, Adolf McLaughlin, J Kemp Klint, Wilbur Bud Noack, John P + Artist : Robert Taylor
Signature(s) value alone : £605 | | SOLD OUT | VIEW EDITION... |
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Signatures on this item | *The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare. | Name | Info | First Lieutenant John P Noack *Signature Value : £30
| Joining the service in March 1942, John trained as a pilot before being posted to England joining the 369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group flying B17s from their base at Thurleigh in Bedfordshire. He undertook his first mission in anger on 12 August 1943, and on 14 October went on the second mission to Schweinfurt. On 11 December 1943, after completing 15 combat missions, his B 17 was shot down over Europe and he was forced to ditch, and taken prisoner by the Germans, remaining in captivity until liberated on 30 April 1945.
| First Lieutenant Wilbur Bud Klint *Signature Value : £20
| 'Bud' Klint joined the service in 1942, and after qualifying as a pilot was posted to England in July 1943. He flew the first of his tour of 25 combat missions in B 1 7s on 16 August 1943. The following day he went on the first mission to Schweinflart, and then to Stuttgart on 6 September when he was forced to safely ditch his aircraft. On 14 October he went to Schweinffirt again - this time on the fateful second mission, but again brought his aircraft safely home. He finished his tour in Europe and after a period instructing on B 17s left the service in November 1945.
| General J Kemp McLaughlin *Signature Value : £25
| As a Second Lieutenant in October 1942, Kemp McLaughlin had already brought a heavily damaged and burning B 17 safely home whilst under heavy attack from German aircraft. It was a suitable prelude to the dangers that would face him and his crew a year later when on 14 Oct 1943, he was the pilot of the 92nd Bomb Group's B 17 Equipose, the mission command plane during the second mission to attack the ball-bearing factory at Schweinfurt. Under constant attack from German fighters for almost six hours, he again brought the crew safely home. The following month he was deputy air commander on a bombing raid in Norway, when his aircraft lost oil pressure due to one engine overheating. The crew carried on to the target, but on the return to England were attacked by fighters. Unable to return fire because all guns had been thrown overboard to lighten the aircraft, he skilfully coaxed his plane safely back to base. His 'luck' continued when in December 1944 he was air commander on a raid during the Battle of the Bulge when shrapnel pierced his scat a few inches from him, he was uninjured. |
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