Lucky 13 by David Pentland. (B)

St Nazaire, France, 3rd January 1943. The Fw190A4 of Georg-Peter Schorsch Eder, 7/JG2, streaks past Meat Hound, a B17F of th 423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group en route to attack the U-boat pens at St Nazaire. Along with his Gruppenkommandeur Egon Mayer, it was Eder who pioneered the head on pass tactic against the Flying Fortresses. On this day he to achieve his thirteenth victory, and second B17. By the end of the war he had accounted for some 36 heavy bombers.

Signed by Major Erich Rudorffer (deceased)
and supplied with the original signatures of :
General Johannes Steinhoff (deceased)
, Adolf Dickfeld (deceased)
and
Kurt Buhligen (deceased).

Signature edition of 2 prints.

Image size 12 inches x 8 inches (31cm x 20cm)