Pacific Glory by Nicolas Trudgian [Print]

Artist: Nicolas Trudgian [Browse all Nicolas Trudgian]

Aircraft Depicted: P-38 Lightning [other products featuring this aircraft]

Anniversary Ed

Published in 2005. Signed by three highly decorated P-38 pilots who flew in combat with the 475th Fighter Group in the Pacific theatre during World War. We were lucky to get the last remaining prints when Cranston Fine Arts purchased over the last stocks of Nicolas Trudgian back catalogue.    

Anniversary Edition Signed by:

Dahl, Perry J [bio and other signed products]

Forster, Joseph (Died 18th April 2013) [bio and other signed products]

Oxford, Thomas [bio and other signed products]

+ Artist

Commermorative Ed

Published in 2005. Signed by five highly decorated P-38 pilots who flew in combat with the 475th Fighter Group in the Pacific theatre during World War. We were lucky to get the last remaining prints when Cranston Fine Arts purchased over the last stocks of Nicolas Trudgian back catalogue.    

Commemorative Proof Editions Signed By:

All 3 pilots that signed the anniversary ed +

Olsen, Jack [bio and other signed products]

Loisel, John (Died 31st December 2016) [bio and other signed products]

+ Artist

One of the most successful of the P-38 equipped units was the 475th Fighter Group, Satans Angels, and it is the P-38s of this famous unit that Nicolas Trudgian has portrayed in his tribute to the American Air Forces that made Victory in the Pacific possible. It is March 1945 and the P-38s of the 475th FG are involved in a huge dogfight with Japanese Zeros over the coast of Indo-China. Flying Pee Wee V is Lt Ken Hart of the 431st Fighter Squadron, who has fatally damaged a Zero in a blistering head on encounter. The second P-38 - Vickie - belongs to Captain John Rabbit Pietz, who would end the War an Ace with six victories.