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Please note that our logo is used on our website images only and does not appear on our products. Mustangs Over the Eagles Nest by Nicolas Trudgian. Obersalzberg, a spectacularly picturesque area of southern Germany in the Bavarian Alps, became a focal point for the Allies as World War II was drawing to its close. This mountain village had become a Nazi stronghold after the Third Reich had seized houses, farms, and some 600 acres, and built private residences for Martin Bormann and Hermann Goering, an SS barracks, and erected a 30kmn fence around the perimeter to deter intrusion. At its centre was the Berghoff, Adolf Hitlers private mountain retreat. Crowning Bormanns lavish building programme was the house he had built on a rocky spur almost 3000 feet above the Obersalzberg, some 6000 feet above sea level. Reached via a twisting road blasted out of the mountainside, the house was approached after entering a tunnel via a large brass two story elevator rising over 400 feet to the building. The Kehlsteinhaus was Martin Bormanns present for Hitter on the occasion of his 50th birthday in 1939. It was known by the Allies as the Eagles Nest. Believing the Obersalzberg to be where Hitler and his closest henchmen would make their final stand, in April 1945 Allied bombing raids reduced much of the area to ruins. The Eagles Nest, intended as a private retreat from which Hitler could gaze over a conquered Europe, being an isolated target, survived this onslaught, and endures to this day. Nicolas Trudgians painting shows P-51Ds of the 339th Fighter Group roaring over the rooftop of Hitlers now abandoned folly. With Germany and the Third Reich on the brink of defeat, this majestic aviation image conveys the poignant irony of the greatest lost cause in human history, with P-51 Mustangs providing a fitting symbol of victory over tyranny. AMAZING VALUE! - The value of the signatures on this item is in excess of the price of the print itself! Item Code : DHM2657 Mustangs Over the Eagles Nest by Nicolas Trudgian. - This Edition TYPE EDITION DETAILS SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS YOUR PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 350 Anniversary edition prints. Published 2005 with an opening published price of £120, this superb collecters art print is signed by five highly decorated USAAF pilots who flew combat in the European theatre during World War II. A very popular print with very few available anywhere, we were lucky to get the last few prints when Cranston Fine Arts purchased over the last stocks of the Nicolas Trudgian back catalogue. SOLD OUT. Paper size 35.5 inches x 27 inches (90cm x 69cm) Moon, Dale Powell, Lawrence Hasek, Ivan Minech, John L Sternfels, Robert W + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian Signature(s) value alone : £220 SOLD OUT NOT AVAILABLE All prices on our website are displayed in British Pounds Sterling

Other editions of this item : Mustangs Over the Eagles Nest by Nicolas Trudgian. DHM2657 TYPE EDITION DETAILS SIZE SIGNATURES OFFERS YOUR PRICE PURCHASING PRINT Signed limited edition of 350 Commemorative Proof edition prints. Published 2005 with an opening published price of £190, this superb collecters art print is signed by seven highly decorated USAAF pilots who flew combat in the European theatre during World War II. A very popular print with very few available anywhere, we were lucky to get the last few prints when Cranston Fine Arts purchased over the last stocks of the Nicolas Trudgian back catalogue. Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item! Paper size 35.5 inches x 27 inches (90cm x 69cm) Fiedler, Arthur C Burdick, Clinton DeWitt Moon, Dale Powell, Lawrence Hasek, Ivan Minech, John L Sternfels, Robert W + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian Signature(s) value alone : £320 £60 Off! Now : £220.00 VIEW EDITION... FLYER Nicolas Trudgian Promotional Flyer. A4 Size Double Sheet 11.5 inches x 8 inches (30m x 21cm) none £2.00 VIEW EDITION... EX-DISPLAY PRINT **Signed limited edition of 350 Commemorative Proof edition prints. (One print reduced to clear) Ex display prints in near perfect condition. Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item! Paper size 35.5 inches x 27 inches (90cm x 69cm) Fiedler, Arthur C Burdick, Clinton DeWitt Moon, Dale Powell, Lawrence Hasek, Ivan Minech, John L Sternfels, Robert W + Artist : Nicolas Trudgian Signature(s) value alone : £320 £200.00 VIEW EDITION... General descriptions of types of editions :

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*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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1st Lieutenant Ivan Hasek (deceased) *Signature Value : £45	Ivan Hasek flew P47s in Europe with the 353rd FS - The Fighting Cobras, 354th Fighter Group, attached to the 9th Air Force, scoring his first victory - against an Fw190, on Boxing Bay 1944. Converting to P5 IDs in early 1945 his tally continued to mount, and he finished his tour an Ace with 5.5 victories. Ivan Hasek passed away in December 2007.
Captain John L Minech *Signature Value : £45	A pilot with the 647th Squadron, 410th Light Bomb Group, John Minech flew the first of his sixty-five combat missions in May 1944, flying the Douglas A20 Havoc. he flew two missions on d-Day itself, the second of which was a low level attack at 300ft during the evening. He flew thirty-five missions as a Flight Leader, and was Squadron Operations Officer for 5 months. He flew in Europe until the end of the war.
Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence Powell *Signature Value : £40	Commissioned and rated a pilot in December 1943, Lawrence Powell was posted to England, joining the 339th Fighter Group at Fowlmere. Flying P51 s, Lawrence notched up the first of his 5.5 victories, over an Fw 190 south of Hamburg, on 4 August 1944, and attained Ace status on 23 September. Shot down by flak in January 1945, and was made POW.
Major Robert W. Sternfels (deceased) *Signature Value : £50	Pilot Bob Sternfels was posted to the 98th Bomb Group flying B24 Liberators, and by April 1943 was in Libya where he took part in the first big Ploesti raid on 1 August 1943, flying the much photographed B24 Sandman. Flying 50 combat missions, he later commanded his squadron out of Libya and Italy, including a big Ragensberg raid. He died on 24th January 2018.
Master Sergeant Dale Moon *Signature Value : £40	Flying B17s with the 381st Bomb Group, Dale Moon was based at Ridgewell with the 533rd Bomb Squadron. Dale undertook his first combat mission in April 1944 during the build up to D-Day, and went on 4 big raids to Berlin during his tour - surviving two crash landings following heavy action. After the war Dale saw service in Korea, and flew the B29 and B36 Peacemaker - the largest American bomber ever produced.

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