Original Signed Limited Edition Print: Framed “The Day of the Fighters” by Nicolas Trudgian Signed by Three Legendary Aces Who Flew the Fw190 - 477/1000 - 29 ⅛ x 39 ⅞”
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Original Item. Only One Available. This is a signed print of “The Day of the Fighters” by Nicolas Trudgian, signed at the bottom by three legendary aces pilots who flew the Fw190 fighter. The frame is well-put together and the print is very clear. This is a limited run print, number 477 out of 1000. This and many other prints were published by The Military Gallery in Wendover England over the past 20+ years.
The print is individually numbered and hand signed by the artist along with three legendary Aces who flew the Fw190:
Oberleutnant ADOLF GLUNZ – 72 victories
Hauptmann ALFRED GRISLAWSKI – 133 victories
Major GERHARD SCHOPFEL – 45 victories
The print is still clear, and it displays beautifully. It comes with the original certificate of authenticity, which is taped to the back of the frame. Comes ready for further research and display.
The pilots of I Gruppe JG-1 were up early on August 17, 1943. It was high summer, and even as the first streaks of light appeared in the sky to the east, four pilots got airborne out of Deelan, Holland, and headed for the coast. It was the first routine reconnaissance of the morning. By 0730 German listening services were picking up signals indicating large formations of enemy aircraft assembling to the west of Great Yarmouth, South East England.
By 0800 it was clear to the German interceptor fighter groups stationed in Holland that this was going to be no ordinary day. Shortly after 0930 the first wave of a force of some 375 B-17s and B-24s, heavily escorted by fighters, started crossing the Dutch coast south of the Scheidt estuary, their destination Schweinfurt and Regensburg. They were shadowed by the German fighters of I, II, and III Gruppe along their entire route over Europe.
When the Allied fighter escort turned back at the limit of their range, the Luftwaffe fighters made their attack. It was the start of a day of incessant aerial combat which raged all the way across Holland, Belgium and Germany, and all the way back to the coast again as the Americans returned to England. It was one of the longest air-to-air battles of the war and became known by the Luftwaffe pilots as the “Day of the Fighters”.
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