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Please note that our logo is used on our website images only and does not appear on our products. Wellington Attack by David Pritchard. (E) On the night of 12th/ 13th August 1941 No.9 Squadron, in their Wellington Bombers, are once again taking the war into the heartland of Nazi Germany, WS-G Skipper Flt/Lt Kenneth Ball fights to keep her straight and level through the intense flack that surrounds the target, while his front gunner Sgt Cyril Chandler tries in vain to take on the menace of the search lights that seek their Wellington. Both aircraft coded WS-G and WS-Z would be listed as Failed to Return from this mission. This Print was split into dfferent editions signed by different groups of crew, this edition is not signed by the artist. Item Code : PR0035E Wellington Attack by David Pritchard. (E) - This Edition Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price! TYPE EDITION DETAILS SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS YOUR PRICE PURCHASING PRINT 2 Polish crew signature edition, not numbered but only a few available. Sold out from the publisher (R J Yeoman 2008/2010). Image size 19 inches x 26 inches (48cm x 66cm) Jozefiak, Stanislav £20 Off! Now : £140.00 All prices on our website are displayed in British Pounds Sterling

Other editions of this item : Wellington Attack by David Pritchard. PR0035 TYPE EDITION DETAILS SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS YOUR PRICE PURCHASING PRINT 9 crew signature edition, not numbered but only a few available. Sold out from the publisher (R J Yeoman 2008/2010). Image size 19 inches x 26 inches (48cm x 66cm Wallis, Ken Kartz, Harry Johnson, Ken Randle, Bill Cooling, Rupert Foinette, Eric Pearce, Bob Johnson, Freddie £20 Off! Now : £180.00 VIEW EDITION... PRINT 5 crew signature edition, not numbered but only a few available. Sold out from the publisher (R J Yeoman 2008/2010). Image size 19 inches x 26 inches (48cm x 66cm) Johnson, Ken Lusher, Norman Levy, Harry Kartz, Harry Mason, Dennis £20 Off! Now : £160.00 VIEW EDITION... PRINT 8 crew signature edition, not numbered but only a few available. Sold out from the publisher (R J Yeoman 2008/2010). Image size 19 inches x 26 inches (48cm x 66cm) Wallis, Ken Kartz, Harry Johnson, Ken Cooling, Rupert Foinette, Eric Pearce, Bob Johnson, Freddie £20 Off! Now : £170.00 VIEW EDITION... PRINT 2 crew signature edition, not numbered but only a few available. Sold out from the publisher (R J Yeoman 2008/2010). Image size 19 inches x 26 inches (48cm x 66cm) Johnson, Ken Irons, Harry £20 Off! Now : £130.00 VIEW EDITION... POSTCARD Collectors postcard - first edition of 90 cards. Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm) none £2.90 VIEW EDITION... General descriptions of types of editions :

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Squadron Leader Stanislaw Jozefiak (deceased) *Signature Value : £50	Stanislaw Jozefiak was born on 10th September 1919 on a farm in Skalmierzycach near Ostrow Wielkopolski, a town in Central Poland. Between 1937 and 1939 he attended an aviation school where he was trained as a radio operator and air gunner. In September 1939 he was one of a group of students who were evacuated to Romania where he was interned in a camp at Timisoara, about 60 kilometres from the Jugoslavian border. The following month he escaped and crossed into Jugoslavia, but was recaptured after five days and returned to the camp. He escaped again, in November 1939, and made it to the Polish Embassy in Bucharest, Romania from where he was taken to the port of Constanta on the Black Sea and on to Beirut, Lebanon on board the Romanian ship Transylvania en route to Marseille, where he arrived on November 1939. He made it to the Polish depot at Lyon-Bron. On 20th January 1940, he set sail from Le Havre, France to Southampton, England. On arrival in England, he learned English and finally qualified as a radio operator and air gunner and was promoted to Sergeant. He was assigned to 12 OTU at RAF Benson and on to RAF Penrith. On 7th April 1941 he was transferred to the newly formed 304 Squadron at RAF Syerston. It was here he teamed up with his permanent crew until the fateful mission to bomb Boulogne, France on the night of 28/29 May 1941. After completing the mission on Wellington bomber R1392, the aircraft was hit by flak which destroyed one engine. Amazingly the pilot recovered control of the aircraft, which was plummeting towards the sea, and they limped back to England on the remaining engine. One of the crew baled out over Boulogne and his body was never found. He was one of two survivors of Wellington Bomber R1392, of 304 Squadron, which was badly shot up on a bombing mission to the docks at Boulogne and crashed in Sussex. After recovering from his injuries, he continued crewing Wellingtons for a long time before re-training as a Spitfire pilot with 317 Squadron. At the end of January 1942, he returned to his Squadron and flew, with various crews, a total of 53 missions – far more than the obligatory tour of 30 normally expected of aircrew. He then went on to RAF Blackpool, RAF Hucknall and various other RAF stations where he trained as a pilot flying Tiger Moths and Miles Masters. On 14th September 1944 he was assigned to 639 Squadron RAF which was an anti-aircraft co-operation unit, flying Hawker Hurricanes. On 23rd January 1945, he moved to RAF Rednal where he flew Supermarine Spitfires, eventually moving, on 2nd June 1945, to 317 Vilnius Squadron, PAF and serving in Germany where he stayed until the dissolution of the squadron on 18th December 1946. He was promoted to Squadron Leader and was awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of Virtuti Militari and the Cross of Valour (three times). After the War he spent 3 years in Greece, flying dangerous missions over Communist territory for the American Central Intelligence Agency. When the British Government stopped its Nationals from flying with the CIA he was offered American citizenship if he would continue. He opted to remain British and settled down in Derby. Sadly Squadron Leader Stanislaw Jozefiak died in December 2015 at the age of 96, in a nursing home in Derby
Warrant Officer Andrzej Wesolowski *Signature Value : £35 (matted)	He was a wireless operator/air gunner and was born on 17th November 1916 at Alexandrow Kujowski near Torun. He initially served with the Polish Army and was captured in 1939, by the Russians, during the September Campaign. He escaped and was later captured by the Germans and held as a POW in France where he volunteered to work in the Commandant’s garden, thereby supplementing his diet with the odd potato he was able to liberate! He escaped again and made it to England in early 1943 where he joined 304 Squadron after training as a wireless operator/air gunner and being a regular rear gunner with them before transferring out to 6OTU for a three month course. Near the end of his time there, he was on board Wellington Mk X HE747 when it crashed, on 18th February 1944, during a training flight out of RAF Silloth, Cumberland (now Cumbria). He was participating in a co-operation exercise with fighters when the engines on the Wellington overheated and the pilot made a forced landing near the village of Skinburness, about a mile north of Silloth. In an effort to avoid buildings, the plane lost speed and crash landed – killing the pilot and another crew member. Andrzej Wesolowski was one of three survivors but he was injured and recuperated at the Polish Depot in Blackpool. As soon as he was fit, he rejoined 304 Squadron and completed 27/29 operations with them (sources vary). During his military service he was awarded the Cross of Valour. After the war he settled down in Derby.