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Cranston Fine Arts Aviation Art and Artists World War Two Veteran Signatures United States W Wheeler, Dick

Colonel Dick Wheeler

Graduating from West Point in 1943, he was a pilot of the A-20 Havoc with the 416th Bomb Group in England. He flew 69 missions in Europe, including D-Day. Remaining with the Air Force after the war, he set a world record for a high altitude bail out and was involved in missile testing. He remained in the aviation industry after retiring from the Air Force in 1968. He died on 29th December 2009.

Colonel Dick Wheeler - Signed Aviation Art

Raising Havoc in the Ardennes by Nicolas Trudgian. 6 of 7 editions available. 5 of 6 editions featuring up to 19 additional signatures are available. £2.00 - £390.00

Clipped Signature - Dick Wheeler. One edition. £60.00

V.E. Day - Heading Home by Nicolas Trudgian. One edition. The edition features 8 additional signature(s). £140.00

Clipped Signature - Daniel F Shea. One edition. £60.00

Text for the above items :

Raising Havoc in the Ardennes by Nicolas Trudgian. It is January 1945, and its cold. The German advance in the Ardennes is nearly over, but the Panzer Army is desperately throwing more troops into the breach who try to keep their momentum going in The Battle of the Bulge. Tasked with preventing German reinforcements from reaching the battle front, the Ninth Air Force launched a series of low-level attacks on enemy ground forces as they wind their way through the Ardennes. Flying conditions were not easy, cloud bases were low, and snow was in the air. Nicolas Trudgians new painting recreates an attack on January 23, 1945, by Douglas A-20 Havocs of the 410th Bomb Group. Locating an enemy convoy in open space near the German town of Blankenheim, the Havoc pilots make a swift attack diving from 8000 feet, catching the German force by surprise: Hurtling down the line of vehicles at 320mph they release their parafrag bombs from 300 feet then, dropping just above the roofs of the army trucks continue down the column blasting everything in sight with their forward-firing .50mm caliber machine guns. In the space of a few minutes the attack is completed and the convoy decimated. With ammunition expended and fuel running low the A-20 Havocs climb out of the zone and head for base in France. A 20mm shell has hit the lead aircraft wounding the Bombardier/Navigator Gordon Jones, which will seriously hamper their return through a blizzard, but all aircraft make it safely home - the lead aircraft, on landing, counting over 100 holes of various sizes. For their part in leading the successful attack the Lead Pilot Russell Fellers and Bombardier/Navigator Gordon G. Jones received the Silver Star. Published 2001. Signed by A-20 Havoc combat aircrews, including two Silver Star recipients, from World War Two.

Clipped Signature - Dick Wheeler. A pilot of the A-20 Havoc with the 416th Bomb Group in England, he flew 69 missions in Europe, including D-Day. Remaining with the Air Force after the war, he set a world record for a high altitude bail out, retiring in 1968. He died in 2009. Supplied together with the signature of Daniel F Shea : Flew 66 missions as a pilot on the A-20 Havoc with 668th Bomb Squadron, 416th Bomb Group in England. He died in 2004.

V.E. Day - Heading Home by Nicolas Trudgian. Only 50 copies available.

Clipped Signature - Daniel F Shea. Flew 66 missions as a pilot on the A-20 Havoc with 668th Bomb Squadron, 416th Bomb Group in England. He died in 2004. Supplied together with the signature of Dick Wheeler : A pilot of the A-20 Havoc with the 416th Bomb Group in England, he flew 69 missions in Europe, including D-Day. Remaining with the Air Force after the war, he set a world record for a high altitude bail out, retiring in 1968. He died in 2009.

Havoc Manufacturer : Douglas

Havoc A-20

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Invader A-26

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