Lysander Pick Up by Graeme Lothian. [Original Painting]

A Lysander of 161 Squadron from RAF Tempsford banks to port as it circles a field somewhere in France 1943. These missions only took place on or around the full moon period to pick up or drop off SOE agents with the help of the Resistance. 161 Squadron, the most secret of all RAF squadrons, had in its flight, Lysanders, Hudsons, and Halifaxes which carried out parachute operations. Two of 161s top pilots Hugh Verity and Lewis Hodges both received the DSO & bar and DFC & bar, and from France the Legion dHonneur and the Croix de Guerre.

The canvas is signed on the reverse by Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges KCB CBE DSO DFC* (deceased)

Original painting by Graeme Lothian.

Size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm)