A Costly Victory by Stan Stokes. Aviation Art Framed Print 29/950 WWII ME109

We moves houses and there is regrettably not enough space to hang this masterpiece!

Professionally framed and backed with acid Free paper. A colour border has also been specially chosen to bring out the vivid colours. Previously hung in a dining room, that received NO direct sunlight.

Print number 29/950.

The outside of the frame measures 80cm across by 68cm high. The exposed picture measures 60cm across by 45,5cm high.

Never again will any Pilot achieve 300 aircraft kills.

Autographed by Pilot Gunther Rall and Artist Stan Stokes.

In Stans dramatic painting Rall is about to have a mid-air collision with a Lagg-5 during the Battle of Kursk on the Eastern Front. Rall would survive this collision and continue to chalk-up victories until the end of the war. Rall flew about 800 combat missions and missed nearly a year of flying when he suffered a broken back.

Although the true qualities of a fighter pilot cannot be measured simply by tallying his number of air victories - some of the greatest fighter leaders do not feature in the top score sheets - there can be no question that any fighter pilot whose victory tally is counted in 100's has got to be exceptional. That two of them achieved more than 300 air-to-air victories is pure phenomena.

Both "300 Club" members flew the majority of their combat missions with JG-52, the most successful fighter wing of WWII, where, on the Eastern Front they encountered and conquered every type of fighter including British built Spitfires and Hurricanes, the American Airacobra, and all the best Russian built fighters, including the Yak-9.

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