Description
Following a night assault on Hamburg in the summer of 1943 this badly crippled 12 Sqn. Lancaster B-”Boomerang” (named by her Australian skipper with the motif “ The Boomerang Always Comes Back!”), was saved from a JU88 nightfighter attack by a lone Mosquito that should never have been there!
Seen by all aboard the stricken bomber in the rise of the dawn sun, the Mosquito nightfighter stayed in silent escort with them as the skipper struggled to keep the Lancaster flying low over the north sea and reached the coast at Flamborough Head N. Yorkshire in the early light and sea fog. Just as they reached the shoreline, the Mosquito just vanished into the mists and was never seen again.
After crash landing in fields near RAF Wickenby the Lancaster’s surviving crew tried to find and contact the Mosquito’s base unit to thank the crew who had saved them. Fruitless enquiries finally lead to one conclusive answer. “Impossible. No Mosquito was recorded as flying anywhere near enough to your position to have intervened and the Mosquito you claim to have seen was posted ‘Missing Believed Lost’ along with her crew a year before”.
All orders are supplied with the back story behind the painting.
Giclée Print on Archival Paper
Measuring 33″ x 24″ and printed on very high quality Archival Paper. Signed and numbered by Simon Atack and issued with a Certificate of Authenticity
Giclée Print on Canvas – UK orders only
For that ‘original’ look. 36″ x 24″ supplied unstretched and signed and numbered on the back of the canvas and issued with a Certificate of Authenticity
Remarque Edition
Giclée Print on Archival Paper – Measuring 33″ x 24″ and printed on very high quality Archival Paper. Signed and numbered by Simon Atack and issued with a Certificate of Authenticity. Simon will draw a small original pencil image at the bottom of the print on either the left, right or in the middle
Edition Sizes:
Giclée Print on Archival Paper – 400
Giclée Print on Canvas – 200
Remarque Edition – 50
Copyright Image and Text Simon W. Atack
