Aviation artist Simon Atack.
Aviation art print. Aviation print 'One Hundred Up!' by Simon Atack
depicting an RAF Bomber Command Lancaster.
Whichever way one looks at it, the Avro Lancaster became the
backbone, indeed the heart and soul of RAF Bomber Command during the
arduous air war of World Wart II. Following its introduction in mid
1942, the mighty "Lanc" took part in almost every night
bombing raid on Europe, and some of the most daring missions of the war:
the sinking of the Tirpitz, the destruction of the missile sites at
Peenemunde, and perhaps most famous of all, the legendary raid on the
Möhne and Eder Dams in 1943.
In a salute to the bomber crews of World War II, Simon Atack has
painted one of RAF Bomber Command's most famous Lancasters. With
an 8000lb "cookie" blockbuster bomb tucked into her bomb bay,
RAAF skipper T N Scholefield pilots the 467 Squadron Lancaster "S
for Sugar" out on her 100th mission on May 11th 1944. Embellished
with a bomb symbol painted on her fuselage signifying each raid
completed, and the infamous Goering quotation "No enemy plane will
ever fly over the Reich Territory", the mighty Lancaster leads a
formation bound for Germany. In total she completed 137 bombing raids.
Today, beautifully restored, she proudly rests in the RAF Bomber Command
Museum at Hendon, London.
