Description

Lancaster AJ-N scores a direct hit on the Eder Dam with its bouncing bomb during the famous Dambusters raid on the night of 16/17 May 1943. Pilot Officer Les Knight and Flight Engineer Ray Grayston fight the controls to clear the dam, combining their physical strength to haul the lumbering Lancaster up and over the dam and clear the high ground that lies ahead. Below and behind them, the second of Germany’s mighty western dams lies finally breached.

Signatures

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Sergeant Ray Grayston reunites with other surviving aircrew from that most epic of World War II raids to sign prints in this new limited edition by Robert Taylor.

THE LIMITED EDITION
Each individual print in this edition is personally signed by two veterans of the epic Dambusters Raid – the flight engineer of Les Knight’s Lancaster AJ-N that breached the Eder Dam, Sergeant Ray Grayston; together with American Joe McCarthy’s bomb aimer on Lancaster AJ-T, Squadron Leader George Johnson. Every print in the edition is also signed by the artist Robert Taylor, and individually hand-numbered.

Sergeant RAYMOND E. GRAYSTON RAF
Squadron Leader GEORGE L. JOHNSON DFM RAF

THE COLLECTORS EDITION
The SIX signature Collectors Edition is additionally signed by the following veterans of this historic raid:

Squadron Leader LES MUNRO DSO DFC RNZAF
Sergeant FREDERICK E. SUTHERLAND RCAF
Flight Sergeant GRANT S. McDONALD RCAF
Corporal KENNETH LUCAS RAF

THE GICLÉE CANVAS PROOFS
To replicate the artist’s original painting so faithfully, each proof is individually crafted by a specialist master printer laying down solid colour on canvas, so that only the experienced eye can distinguish them from the original. With each of these 25 proofs individually signed by the artist Robert Taylor in oil paint, all SIX of the veterans whose signatures appear on the Collectors Edition paper print have individually signed the unique Presentation Certificate issued with each copy in this Giclée edition.

THE DAMBUSTERS TRIBUTE PROOFS
Issued with an ORIGINAL Robert Taylor pencil drawing. Limited to just nineteen proofs representing the number of aircraft flown on the Dams Raid, each is accompanied by an ORIGINAL Dambusters pencil drawing by Robert Taylor, matted to conservation standards to include the original signatures of three of the most famous names associated with the Dambuster Raid

Air Marshal Sir HAROLD (MICK) MARTIN KCB CB DSO* DFC* AFC
Squadron Leader DAVID J. SHANNON DSO* DFC*
Flight Lieutenant GEORGE A. CHALMERS DFC DFM

PLEASE NOTE THE TRIBUTE PROOFS ARE LIKELY TO BE OVERSUBSCRIBED SO ARE ISSUED ANNOUNCED SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY