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Under Cover of the Night by Simon Smith. (B) - Direct Art
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Under Cover of the Night by Simon Smith. (B)


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Under Cover of the Night by Simon Smith. (B)

Item Code : DHM0290BUnder Cover of the Night by Simon Smith. (B) - This EditionAdd any two items on this offer to your basket, and the lower priced item will be half price in the checkout! Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price!
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PRINT From the signed limited edition of 1000 prints, less than 100 are available co-signed. Image size 22 inches x 15 inches (56cm x 38cm) Higgins, William Bill
+ Artist : Simon Smith


Signature(s) value alone : £20
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Other editions of this item : Under Cover of the Night by Simon Smith.DHM0290
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PRINTSigned limited edition of 1000 prints. Image size 22 inches x 15 inches (56cm x 38cm)Artist : Simon Smith£25 Off!Add any two items on this offer to your basket, and the lower priced item will be half price in the checkout!Now : £95.00VIEW EDITION...
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Limited edition of 50 artist proofs.
Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item!
Image size 22 inches x 15 inches (56cm x 38cm) Goodman, L S Benny
Calton, Ken
Cole, Colin
Thomson, George
Lamb, Alistair
+ Artist : Simon Smith


Signature(s) value alone : £175
£60 Off!Now : £120.00VIEW EDITION...
PRINT Reid Presentation Edition of 5 Artist Proofs. Image size 22 inches x 15 inches (56cm x 38cm) Reid, Bill
+ Artist : Simon Smith


Signature(s) value alone : £80
£300.00VIEW EDITION...
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Limited edition of 50 giclee canvas prints. Image size 40 inches x 30 inches (102cm x 76cm)Artist : Simon Smith
on separate certificate
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Limited edition of 50 giclee canvas prints. Image size 30 inches x 22 inches (76cm x 56cm)Artist : Simon Smith
on separate certificate
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Original painting by Simon Smith. Image size 46 inches x 36 inches (117cm x 91cm)Artist : Simon SmithSOLD
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Signatures on this item
*The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare.
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Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins (deceased)
*Signature Value : £20

Flt Eng William (Bill) Higgins Born in Plymouth, Devon, joined the RAF at the age of 17 and became a flight engineer on Lancaster with 195 Squadron.in October 1944. whihc flew from RAF Wratting Common. Bill Higgins flew on most missions that 195 Squadorn took part in including there last mission on the 24th April 1945 the bombing of Railway facilites at Bad Oldesloe. and also took part in the supply drops to the Dutch at The Hague on the 7th May 1945. After the war end Bill transferred to air traffic control in Occupied Germany durign the Belrin Airtlift. and after leaving the RAF, Joined the civil servcie and worked onRadar, including the intallation of radar on HMS Cavalier in Singapore.
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LancasterThe Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' "Operation Gomorrah" in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992.

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