Supported by the Highland Chiefs with twelve hundred highlanders present
an Upkeep bomb arrives on the threshold to be loaded onto the special cradle beneath a Lancaster of 617 Dambusters Squadron on the eve of their perilous journey to the Ruhr Valley on the night of 16th May 1943 when the Möhne and Eder dams were breached under the codename Operation Chastise
The Italian Reparto Celere 3 of the 'Raggruppamento Sahariano AS'
The Memphis Belle B-17 is undergoing extensive restoration at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm)
Fire from the Fens, c.1071 by Chris Collingwood (P) COU40 Supported by the Highland ChiefsDHM1173P. Fire from the Fens, c. 1071 by Chris Collingwood. In the year 1070, Saxon England lay under Norman oppression. Only one last centre of resistance remained. The Isle of Ely in the Fenlands of East Anglia. Here, Hereward Leofricson, son of Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva, emerged as a warrior leader. Struggling against overwhelming odds in his defiance of the Normans. The legend of Hereward the Wake was born. Original painting by Chris