Seeking the Way by David Pentland. (GS) SHN238DHM6232GS. Seeking the Way by David Pentland. Don River, Russia, 17th January 1943. Alpini scouts spearhead the 40,000 strong mass of stragglers retreating from the Don front in the wake of the Soviet Little Saturn offensive. Two columns of Alpini and Italians from other commands, plus various Germans and Hungarians fought twenty two battles and covered 200 km on foot in fifteen days to regain their own lines. Limited edition of up to 10 giclee canvas
Only two of the ship's 319 crew and trainees survived
Short Sunderland Mk
with several other vessels damaged
In all he was to claim 8 victories while flying the Me262
8 (Reconnaissance Experimental 8)
Jagdgeswader 54 (Greenheart Wing) make a final sortie during the last days of March 1945
Typhoons Over Normandy by Ivan Berryman
Ostsack by David Pentland
25th June 1944
then as a guard ship in the Medway
109G4s in the skies above Kent on 20th January 1943 in a single sortie
before moving to the Balkans as Kommodore of JG54