Brothers in Arms by Ivan Berryman. (B) SIG940C Roberts emotive painting shows 381st

Roberts emotive painting shows 381st Bomb Group B-17 Fortresses returning to Ridgewell on a summer afternoon in 1944 during a period when the Group reached the peak of it effectiveness- for several months it was the top ranked outfit in the Eighth

Tribute to Flt Lt Pierre Clostermann by Ivan Berryman

During the ensuing dogfight

and the ever present movement of troops and armour toward the battlefront were constantly attacked from the air

and every hedgerow

Brothers in Arms by Ivan Berryman. (B) SIG940C Roberts emotive painting shows 381stDHM1983B. Brothers in Arms by Ivan Berryman. On the morning of 13th April 1917, five RE8s of 59 Sqn, RFC, took off from their base at La Bellevue on a photographic sortie, A3203 carrying a camera, with the other four flying as escorts. Spads of 19 Sqn and some 52 Sqn Fe. 2s were to have joined them as fighter cover, but the rendezvous was never made and the RE8s found themselves alone. For some unknown reason, this flight of aircraft seemed to have