ROBERT TAYLOR Opening Sky P-51 Mustangs 78th Fighter Group with17 RARE Signatures

  

"OPENING SKY" by artist Robert Taylor is a signed and numbered limited edition print from an EXTREMELY SMALL edition limited to only 175 prints!! With the morning sun glinting on their fuselages, P-51 Mustangs of the 78th Fighter Group cross the Dutch coastline far below, heading back towards their base at Duxford, England at the end of a long sweep east of the Rhine crossing in Spring 1945. The final months of the war in Europe lie ahead, and for the P-51 pilots the victory is within sight. Robert Taylor's visually poetic masterpiece "OPENING SKY" pays tribute to the American P-51 Mustang fighter pilots who flew and fought for freedom during World War II, and is the third in his highly successful Tribute Series.

It follows the release of his popular RAF Hurricane tribute "Height and Sun" and Luftwaffe Me109 tribute DAWN EAGLES RISING. " NOTE: "DAWN EAGLES RISING" is also available from us separately or together with "OPENING SKY in a like-numbered set.

In addition to the artist this print was signed by SEVENTEEN of the USAAF's foremost P-51 Mustang Aces/pilots. Colonel CLARENCE'BUD' ANDERSON (357th FG/16.25 victories). Lieutenant Colonel CLYDE EAST (10th Photo Recon Group/14.5 victories). Colonel ART FIEDLER (325th FG/8 victories). Major BILL ALLEN (55th FG/5 victories).

Captain JIM BROOKS (31st FG/13 victories). Captain CLINTON BURDICK (356th FG/5.5 victories). Captain WAYNE COLEMAN (78th FG/5 victories). First Lieutenant RAYMOND'TED' CONLIN (357th FG).

Lieutenant Colonel DON CUMMINGS (27th, 55th FG/6.5 victories). Major URBAN DREW (361st FG/6 victories). Lieutenant Colonel BOB GOEBEL (31st FG/11 victories).

Colonel WALKER'BUD' MAHURIN (56th, 3rd, 51st FG/24.25 victories). Colonel STEVE PISANOS (4th FG/10 victories).

First Lieutenant JOHN SKARA (357th FG). Second Lieutenant LOWELL STEWARD (332nd FG/Tuskegee). First Lieutenant CLINT WHITE (31st FG).

"OPENING SKY" is in mint condition, has never been framed, and, like all of our prints, has been stored flat. It measures 27½" x 17" and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and a four-page, full-color sales brochure. With arguably the largest secondary market inventory in the world, Classic Aviation & War Art might just have it! GOOD LUCK AND THANKS FOR LOOKING!