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Overall print size: 31" wide x 23" high.

Eagle Strike by Simon Atack
500 s/n prints w/ONE signature.
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25 Artist Proofs.
US $160

 

Generalleutnant Günther Rall
One of the greatest Aces of all time, Günther Rall scored his first air victory early in the Battle of Britain, and by July 1940 was leading 8./JG52. After transfer to the Eastern front his air victories mounted but a crash hospitalized him. Within nine months he was back as Kommandeur of III./JG52 gaining the Wing's 500th victory. Later Kommandeur of II./JG11 on the Western Front in the home defense, and in March 1945, Kommandeur of JG300. Günther Rall became the 3rd highest scoring Ace in history with 275 victories. He was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords.

 

 

    

Eagle Strike

Flying his Messerschmitt Me109G6, Major Günther Rall, Group Commander of II./JG11 with over 200 air victories already to his credit, clashes with a P-47 Thunderbolt of the 63rd Sqn, 56th Fighter Group high over the Rhine south of Koblenz, May 12, 1944. Led by Colonel Hub Zemke, the 56th Fighter Group played advance guard to a deep penetration bomber raid to central Germany. As his forty eight P-47 Thunderbolts arrived to sweep the sky around the Koblenz –Frankfurt area, the Me109s of II./JG11 pounced from a 5000 feet height advantage.

Simon Atack’s high-impact painting shows Major Günther Rall bringing down Hub Zemke’s wingman, the first of two victories he claimed before himself being brought down by 56th Fighter Group P-47s later in the combat.

Günther Rall returned to combat flying, commanding JG300 until the end of hostilities by which time, with 275 air victories, he became the third highest scoring Ace in history.