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Aviation Print 'Coming Home' by Kevin Walsh
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This beautiful Brooch is a faithful replica of the badge presented (in 1944) by the Blackburn Aircraft Company (Leeds) to all those men and women who had worked for three years or more on the production of the Swordfish aircraft. We have commissioned only 150 of these highly collectible brooches, each of which has been individually hand crafted in sterling silver (the original was in white metal). An original Badge appeared in a Sotheby's Catalogue in 1990 with an estimate of £200 - 300 !!! |
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approx. 1.5 x actual size:
Detail:
Supplied in a high quality box with a copy of the original leaflet that accompanied it in 1944. |
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Price: £22.00 (includes Postage in UK) |
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Aviation Print 'Coming Home' by Kevin Walsh from £10.00 |
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Kevin climbed to the top of the Leeds Town Hall to get the right viewing angle of Leeds Civic Hall featured here as the perfect back drop to this stunning portrayal of W5856 'The City of Leeds'. All copies of the print are signed by the artist, but additional signatures may also be available, such as ex Swordfish pilots or the RNHF Crew who normally look after and fly the aircraft.
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'With Naval Wings' - Signed John Wellham DSC
'The Attack on Taranto - Blueprint for Pearl Harbor' - Signed John Wellham DSC
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'With Naval Wings' |
WITH NAVAL WINGS
The Autobiography of a Fleet Air Arm Pilot in World War II
by John W.G.Wellham (1995)
In the Forward, Rear Admiral I.D.G. Garnett writes:
'John Wellham was in at the beginning of the age of the Aircraft Carrier. All young pilots have been told in their early training: 'There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.' Remarkably and fortunately John seems to have beaten the maxim. He was in at the beginning, and his memoir reads like a history of the FAA; operations of the Second War; Mediterranean, Western Desert, Atlantic Convoys. He was still there at the end, responsible for flying operations from an Escort Carrier in the East Indies Fleet.
It would be an exaggeration to say that the 42 airmen who flew into Taranto Harbor in November 1940 changed the face of naval warfare overnight, but they certainly began the process which saw the Aircraft Carrier replace the battleship as the capital ship of the fleet. I am pleases that one of those 42 has written it all down in a book of candour and humour, and made these crucial events available to a wider audience.'
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'The Attack on Taranto - Blueprint for Pearl Harbor |
THE ATTACK ON TARANTO
Blueprint for Pearl Harbor
by
Thomas P.Lowry and John W.G.Wellham (1995)
'...far more than a "prelude". If this exciting, convincing book had been published in 1940, it could well have prevented the disaster of Pearl Harbor. As it is, D.Lowry and Cdr. Wellham show how America must always be alert to the activities of our enemies and those of our Allies, too, so as to avoid "future military surprises.'
- Bruce Lee, co-author of Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement and author of Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II.
'This book portrays, in most readable form, one of the daring acts of naval power that greatly acted to turn the fortunes of war at a time of grave peril not only for Britain bur for all the Western World. The author shows that Taranto was an unmistakable blueprint for the shattering attack on the U.S.Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The Attack on Taranto is not only a book for the naval historian, but also for the lay reader. It must be read.
- Group Captain J.F.W.Pembridge AFC, RAF (Ret.)
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Price for Each book: £20.00 (includes Postage in UK) These can also be signed by John Wellham if required. |