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A Wing and a Prayer by Ivan Berryman. (PC)
The Dams raids on the night of 16/17 May 1943 were notable not least for the incredible ingenuity shown by the Lancaster crews in their efforts to avoid detection by the enemy en route to their targets. P/O W C Townsend elected to fly his aircraft, ED886(G) O for Orange below tree-top height through a forest firetrap on his way to the Ennepe Dam, a feat carried out by moonlight alone. AJ-O made it successfully to its target where the Upkeep bomb was observed to hit the dam, but with no effect. Townsend returned to base at this perilous altitude, the crew observing that flak shells were bouncing off the sea in the German gunners' efforts to prevent the Lancaster's escape across the North Sea. AJ-O was one of eleven aircraft to return safely out of a total of nineteen that took part in the heroic raids under the codename Operation Chastise. |
| | Item Code : B0426PC | A Wing and a Prayer by Ivan Berryman. (PC) - This Edition | |
| | TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | | POSTCARD | Collector's Postcard - Restricted Initial Print Run of 100 cards.
| Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm) | none | | £2.90 |
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| Other editions of this item : | A Wing and a Prayer by Ivan Berryman. | B0426 |
| | TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 30 prints. | Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm) |  Johnson, George L 
+ Artist : Ivan Berryman
Signature(s) value alone : £45 | £15 Off! | Now : £75.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ARTIST
PROOF | Limited edition of 20 artist proofs. | Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm) |  Johnson, George L 
+ Artist : Ivan Berryman
Signature(s) value alone : £45 | £15 Off! | Now : £95.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ARTIST
PROOF | Signed limited edition of 30 artist proofs.
Professionally produced using a high quality inkjet digital press and printed on 300gsm art stock. | Image Size 13.4 inches x 9.4 inches (34cm x 24cm) Paper Size 16.5 Inches x 11.7 inches (42cm x 29.6) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | £20 Off! | Now : £55.00 | VIEW EDITION... | | PRINT | Presentation edition of 2 prints. | Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm) | Sutherland, Frederick E (clipped)
McDonald, Grant S (clipped)
Johnson, George L
+ Artist : Ivan Berryman
Signature(s) value alone : £135 | | £370.00 | VIEW EDITION... | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 300 prints.
Professionally produced using a high quality inkjet digital press and printed on 300gsm art stock. | Image Size 13.4 inches x 9.4 inches (34cm x 24cm) Paper Size 16.5 Inches x 11.7 inches (42cm x 29.6) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | £15 Off! | Now : £40.00 | VIEW EDITION... | GICLEE
CANVAS | Limited edition of 10 giclee canvas prints. | Size 18 inches x 13 inches (46cm x 33cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman
on separate certificate | £100 Off! | Now : £200.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ORIGINAL
ACRYLIC | Original acrylic painting by Ivan Berryman.
SOLD (September 2010) | Size 13 inches x 9 inches (33cm x 23cm) | Artist : Ivan Berryman | | SOLD
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| The Aircraft : | | Name | Info | | Lancaster | The Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' "Operation Gomorrah" in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992. |
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