Don't Miss Any Special Deals - Sign Up To Our Newsletter! Product Search

Cranston Fine Arts Aviation Art and Artists World War Two Veteran Signatures United States T Tuttle, Richard

Technical Sergeant Richard E Tuttle

Richard Tuttle trained as a Radio Operator after enlisting in the Army Air Corps a few days before Christmas 1941. After completing his training he was posted to England with the 44th Bomb Group, The Flying Eightballs, part of the 8th Air Force. On 28th June 1943 the Group, under the command of Leon Johnson (who would win the Medal of Honor at Ploesti) arrived in Libya from where he took part in the Ploesti Rai. Returning to England he completed 19 missions before the end of his tour.

Technical Sergeant Richard E Tuttle - Signed Aviation Art

To Hell and Back - Operation Tidal Wave by Anthony Saunders. 4 editions. All 4 editions feature up to 3 additional signature(s). £110.00 - £475.00

Text for the above items :

To Hell and Back - Operation Tidal Wave by Anthony Saunders. Flying at low-level over the Astra Romana oil refinery, Lt James Merrick of the 98th Bomb Group powers his B-24 'Lil De-icer' through the pall of burning debris as time-delayed bombs, dropped in error by a previous Group, explode beneath them. With any hope of surprise now lost, and taking heavy losses in the process, the crews of the 98th bravely hold their bombers on course. Allied planners knew that just over a third of all Germany's oil came from a single source - the oil fields at Ploesti, far to the east of deepest Romania. If the oilfields and refineries at Ploesti could be destroyed, then Hitler's armies would be dealt a savage blow from which they might never recover.