Operation Chastise Collector's Edition Robert Taylor Signed Print & Green On Go

  
Operation Chastise Collector's Edition Robert Taylor Signed and Numbered Print with Green On Go Companion Print. Only 400 Collector's Edition prints. Lithograph prints by Aviation Artist Robert Taylor. For sale is a Collector's Edition signed and numbered print by renowned aviation artist, Robert Taylor. The print comes with a brochure and Green on Go signed companion print. The prints are on acid free permanent paper. The prints are in excellent condition, never framed, and stored flat in a nonsmoking environment. The overall size of Operation Chastise is 32.25 x 23.

The overall size of Green on Go is 27" x 19.5". Is signed by Robert Taylor and 12 Dambuster Aircrew.

Is initialed by Robert Taylor and signed by Norman'Spud' Boorer. Operation Chastise depicts the night the Mohne dam was breached. The sky is illuminated with tracer and bursting shells as Dinghy Young's Lancaster flies through the hail of defensive fire just a few feet above the dam. His specially designed bomb has just exploded sending a plume of water 1000 feet into the air.

Code name Operation Chastise, which became known more simply as the Dambuster Raid, was one of the most audacious air raids of WWII. On the night of 16/17 May 1943, 19 Lancasters with 133 men attacked German hydroelectric dams in the heart of the Ruhr Valley.

Green on Go depicts the Lancaster crews of 617 Squadron on the evening of 16 May 1943 aboard their 19 Lancaster bombers, each with a single 10,000lb "UPKEEP" bouncing bomb slung exposed beneath the fuselage. At this point, the ground crews had no idea of the secret target that night.