Out of the Night - The First To Go In by Robert Taylor. [Print]

Aircraft Depicted: Avro Lancaster Bomber [other products featuring this aircraft]

Artist: Robert Taylor [browse all Robert Taylor]

Signatures:

Alf Whitbread 

Billy Gray

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Silently out of the night they came. With flaps deployed, three timber and plywood Horsa gliders swept swiftly down through the night skies, rapidly closing with their objective - Pegasus Bridge over the Caen Canal. On board, with tension etched deep into their blackened faces, men from the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, part of the British 6th Airborne Division, braced themselves for landing. They, and sappers from the Royal Engineers, were about to become the first fighting force to land in France on D-Day. They were about to make history.

Signed Limited Ed of 300 Prints.

Paper size 25.5 inches x 21.5 inches (65cm x 54cm)