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Featuring 174 Squadron Hawker Typhoons in Normandy July 1944.

Limited to 30 prints and individually signed and numbered by the artist Joe Roberts. An A3 Limited Edition Giclee print on artpaper and including a conservation quality mount suitable for a 16"x"20" Frame. Postage in the UK is included otherwise overseas postage will be added.

 

From September 1943, Typhoons were also armed with four "60 lb" RP-3 rockets under each wing. In October 1943, No. 181 Squadron made the first Typhoon rocket attacks. Although the rocket projectiles were inaccurate and took considerable skill to aim and allow for ballistic drop after firing, "the sheer firepower of just one Typhoon was equivalent to a destroyer's broadside". By the end of 1943, eighteen rocket-equipped Typhoon squadrons formed the basis of the RAF Second Tactical Air Force (2nd TAF) ground attack arm in Europe. By the Normandy landings in June 1944, 2 TAF had eighteen operational squadrons of Typhoon IBs, while RAF Fighter Command had a further nine.

 The aircraft proved itself to be the most effective RAF tactical strike aircraft, on interdiction raids against communications and transport targets deep in North Western Europe prior to the invasion and in direct support of the Allied ground forces after D-Day. 

"Typhoon Force" Hawker Typhoon

£75.00Price
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