By
Nicolas Trudgian
Size: 35" x 24 1/2"
1000 signed and numbered prints
$425
Published 1994
The pilots of 1 Gruppe JG-1 were up early on August 17, 1943, it was
clear to the
German interceptor fighter groups stationed in Holland that this was
going to be no ordinary day.
Shortly after 0930 a force of some 375 B-17s and B-24s, heavily escorted
by fighters,
started crossing the Dutch coast south of the Scheldt estuary, their
destination Schweinfurt and Regensburg.
It was the start of a day of incessant aerial combat which raged all
the way across Holland, Belgium and
Germany, and all the way back to the coast again as the Americans returned
to England. It was one of
the longest air-to-air battles of the war and became known by the Luftwaffe
as the "Day of the Fighters".
Nicolas Trudgian's stunning new painting depicts Fw190s of I Staffel, number I Gruppe JG-1, as they return from the final mission on August 17,1943. Low on fuel, but high on adrenaline, the Fw190 pilots hedgehop along a canal, low over a stunningly painted Dutch landscape
The Signatures:
Each print individually signed by top Fw190 Aces:
ADOLF GLUNZ
ALFRED GRISLAWSKI
GERHARD SCHOPFEL
