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Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunwards Ive climbed and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds - and done a thousand things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, Ive chased the shouting wind along and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air, Up, up the long delirious burning blue Ive topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never lark, or even eagle, flew; And, while with silent, lifting mind Ive trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. John Gillespie Magee RCAF ( Dec 11, 1941) Compuso este poema tras un vuelo de alta cota en su Spitfire. Pocos das despus falleci.
COASTAL PATROL - Richard Taylor August 1940 Battle of Britain: Mk1 Spitfires of 610 Sqn from Biggin Hill patrol The White Cliffs near Dover.
B17 NINE-O-NINE - Steve Heyen 1944 - B17 bombers of 333 Sqn Bomb face Me109 fighters over Germany
JUN 1942 - Battle of Midway: 2 SBD-3 from USS Yorktown fly towards the Japanese fleet.
DEC 1944 - Flying at high altitude, the Fw190A-8 'Sturmbock' of the JG 300 is directed to meet the formations of Allied B-17 and B-24 bombers.
Oberstleutnant Walther Dahl in his 'Blue 13' leads the FW190s from JG300 "Wild Boar". Dahl was involved in 128 dogfights , one ramming a B-17.
P-40 fighters of 325th FG, 12th AF, the dreaded Checkertail Clan, attack a German tank column during the defeat of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps' in Tunisia in early 1943.
1945 - Adolf Galland and Heinz Br lead a group of Me-262's towards an encounter
August 1944 This one depicts a Spitfire MkXIVe flown by Flying Officer Burgwal of 322 (Dutch) Squadron, a high scoring V-1 killer with 19 kills. This image shows one of his kills, this time by tipping over the V-1 flying bomb that was headed for London. This would make the V-1 crash as it had no ailerons or internal systems that could compensate for this imbalance.
DAYS OF THUNDER - Richard Taylor MAY 1944 - Four P-47D Thunderbolts of 78 Fighter Group depart Duxford aerodrome for a low-level strafing mission over the north of France.
DAMBUSTERS BREACHING THE EDER DAM - Robert Taylor MAY 1943 -Four Avro Lancasters of 617 Sqn, modified to carry the huge dam-
busting bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis, breach the Mohne and Eder dams in one night under the leadership of Wing Commander Guy Gibson.
DIC 1943 - Maj. Greg 'Pappy' Boyington and his F4U Corsairs of VMF-214 "Black
RAIDERS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC - Roy Grinnell 1942 The Blohm and Voss B & V-138 reconnaissance flying boats out of Norway
oversee a Ju-88s attack against Allied merchant ships in the Norwegian Sea.
close formation. When he hears on the radio "Bud, where are you? he replies with the phrase that forms the title of the painting.
MAY 1945 - The highest scoring fighter pilot in history, Erich Hartmann shoots down his last victim, his 352nd, a Soviet Yak-9 Fighter over Brno in Slovakia. Hartmann is shown piloting his Messerschmitt ME109 "Black Tulip", on 8 May 1945, the last day of the war.
German Me 262 jet fighters, were vulnerable to fighter attacks during take-off and landing. To counteract mounting losses special units were formed to provide cover. In order to make these aircraft clearly discernable to the German anti-aircraft gunners, their undersides were painted red with white stripes, thus the legend of the "parrot wing" was born. One of this unit's elements was the so-called "strangler swarm" led by Lt. Heino Sachsenberg seen here in his Focke Wulf 190 Dora 9, as he attempts to protect the approaching jet fighters from the P.51 Mustangs' attack.
SEP 1940 Battle of Britain: an ailing He111 is harassed by a Spitfire of the RAF. Just in time, two Me109 of JG26 fly to the rescue.
Led by Squadron Commander Roland Bee Beamont, Hawker Typhoons of 609 Squadron are illustrated as they scramble from their base at Manston in April 1943.
This image is the 25 foot high by 75 foot wide mural in the World War II Gallery of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. The B-17G, 42-38050, Thunder Bird of the 303rd Bomb Group, based at Molesworth, England, is seen at 11:45 AM, 15 August 1944, over Trier, Germany, on its return to base from a mission to Weisbaden. B-17Gs Bonnie B, Special Delivery, and Marie, are seen below as a Messerschmitt 109G and Focke Wulf FW 190 attack Thunder Birds element. Jeff Ethells research for the mural revealed the names and aircraft identities of all U.S. and many German participants in this battle in which the 303rd lost nine Fortresses in this attack by Luftwaffe fighters.
LEO OF THE ZODIAC BOMBERS - Roy Grinnell 1944 Painting on the nose of one of the B-24 Liberators of the famous 834 'Zodiac Squadron of the 486 Bomb Group based at Sudbury in England, which had Zodiac signs on every plane.
SEAWOLVES - Nicolas Trudgian 1942 - The German submarine U-552 Red Devil returns to its base at St Nazaire during the Battle of the Atlantic, escorted by a Fw200 Condor and three Ju88Ds of KGR 106.
DESPERATE DAYS - Gareth Hector 1945 - Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9's of JG-26 squadron intercepting B-24s high above
CLOSE COMBAT - Mark Postlethwaite DEC 23 1944 - Feldwebel Wilhelm Hopfensitz of IV/JG3 piloting his Focke Wulf F190, closes in on a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 838th BS over Belgium.
THE FAMOUS FOUR MINUTES R. G. Smith 4 JUN 1942 -Battle of Midway: One of the defining moments of the Pacific War. In
just 4 minutes Douglas Dauntless dive-bombers from the Enterprise and Yorktown, destroy the Japanese carriers Kaga, Akagi and Soryu.
FIRST KILL- Roy Grinnell SEP 1st 1939 On the first day of WW2 2nd Lt. Wladek Gnys in his gull-winged
PLZP-11 fighter shot down two Dornier Do-17E over the pre-dawn skies of Poland as the Germans launched their surprise attack on his country.
Corsairs of VMF-112 Wolfpack in combat near Guadalcanal in 1943. On May 21, Captain Archie Donahue became an ace in a day by shooting down 5 enemy aircraft in one mission. He would repeat this feat 2 years later while serving aboard the USS Bunker Hill.
SHARK SIGHTING - John D. Shaw 1942 - Kunming, China. Before the pilots of the legendary 1st American Volunteer Group The Flying Tigers could take to the skies against the enemy, the all-important task of boresighting the .30 caliber wing guns of their P-40's had to take place! Their ingenious armourers were often forced to improvise, but as the Tigers' incredible combat record can attest, these great Americans got the job done! Artist John D. Shaw has recreated this scenario, featuring likenesses of actual
JUN 1943 A Macchi MC205 Veltro from A Squadron 'Ace of Wands' shoots down a B-17G over Italy.
1944 - The Tuskegee Airmen of 322 Ftr Gp were known as the Red-Tailed Black Angels with their black fuselage and red painted tails of their P-51Bs. Here Capt. Ed Toppins destroys a Luftwaffe Bf-109 over the skies of Italy.
6 JUN 1944 - And a Republic P-47D Thunderbolt flies over Utah Beach on an escort mission.
1941 - A Ju88 A-4 bomber of III Gruppe / Lehrgeschwader 1 flies over the Tunisian desert.
1944 - The Anglo-Argentine pilot Dick Lucky Lindsell in his Hurricane MkIIC leads the attack on a bridge in Burma.
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Author: Yago F. de Bobadilla