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world war two

Luftwaffe ace Helmut Wick shot down over Poole Bay

Gary

I learnt two things making this image: a deadly encounter between German and British fighter aircraft in late 1940; and the unusual cockpit canopy jettison mechanism on the Messerschmitt Bf 109.

With two engines out, this B-17’s crew were lucky to make it back

Gary

The B-17s were attacked by hundreds of German fighter aircraft in the most ferocious, sustained onslaught since the notoriously disastrous second Schweinfurt raid.

Courage of the paratroopers who jumped into D-Day

Gary

Have you ever jumped out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft? At night. Under fire.

Latest Flight Artworks images have a D-Day theme

Gary

My most recent D-Day related image experiments with depicting the visible shockwave from a bomb dropped by a Hawker Typhoon in Normandy in 1944.

Topsy turvy new Flight Artworks picture published

Gary

It is always a bit of a strange feeling when pictures that you finished some months previously under embargo are finally published.