D-Day Armada by Nicolas Trudgian (B)

There was never a greater concentration of air power deployed in an active theater of war as over the English Channel in May and June 1944. As D-Day approached, the USAAFs Ninth Air Force had assembled over 3500 aircraft a day, they were pounding enemy positions all the way from Pas de Calais to the coast of Normandy. 6 June 1944, arguably the most decisive single day in modern military history, saw the sky filled with waves of troop carrying aircraft towing gliders, dropping over 20,000 highly trained men in support of the massed sea-borne landings on the beaches below. Grabbing all the airspace they could find, the combat wings of the Ninth Air Force were creating havoc among the German ground forces as they scrambled to get troops and armor to the battlefront.

Last 20 available of this sold out edition.

Signed by Captain Clayton Gross,
Colonel Maurice Long (deceased),
Major General Donald Strait (deceased),
Colonel Ricahrd Dick Denison,
First Lieutenant Wayne E Downing,
Captain John L Minech,
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Milow
and
Lieutenant Colonel William Bill D Mitchell, in addition to the artist.

Anniversary edition of 150 prints.

Paper size 35 inches x 23.5 inches (89cm x 60cm)