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Eve of Destiny by Richard Taylor. (C) - Chris Collingwood

Eve of Destiny by Richard Taylor. (C)


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Eve of Destiny by Richard Taylor. (C)

Richard Taylor's stunning painting depicts the men of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division as they take inventory of their equipment during the early evening of 5 June 1944. Adorned with hastily applied invasion stripes, the C-47s of the 438th Troop Carrier Group stand primed, ready to carry the elite unit to Normandy in the early hours of D-Day 1944. To add to the poignancy of this release, the edition is personally signed by veterans that jumped on D-Day with the 101st Airborne.
Item Code : DHM6474CEve of Destiny by Richard Taylor. (C) - This Edition
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PRESENTATIONTribute edition of 5 prints.

Supplied with an original pencil drawing signed by a 506th PIR veteran and matted to include a further three members of Easy Company, 506th PIR
Image size 30 inches x 13 inches (76cm x 33cm), Paper size 36.5 inches x 20.5 inches (92cm x 52cm) Galbraith, William Bill
Wingett, Bill
Nolan, Emmett Rosy
Martinez, Paul
Barrios, Manuel
Martin, James (companion print)
Tipper, Ed (matted on companion print)
McClung, Earl (matted on companion print)
Guth, Forrest (matted on companion print)
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £200
£60 Off!Now : £1225.00

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Other editions of this item : Eve of Destiny by Richard Taylor.DHM6474
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PRINTSigned limited edition of 150 prints. Image size 30 inches x 13 inches (76cm x 33cm), Paper size 36.5 inches x 20.5 inches (92cm x 52cm) Galbraith, William Bill
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £20
£60 Off!Now : £110.00VIEW EDITION...
ARTIST
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Collectors edition of 25 artist proofs. Image size 30 inches x 13 inches (76cm x 33cm), Paper size 36.5 inches x 20.5 inches (92cm x 52cm) Galbraith, William Bill
Wingett, Bill
Nolan, Emmett Rosy
Martinez, Paul
Barrios, Manuel
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £125
£60 Off!Now : £210.00VIEW EDITION...
PRINTCollectors edition of 185 prints. Image size 30 inches x 13 inches (76cm x 33cm), Paper size 36.5 inches x 20.5 inches (92cm x 52cm) Galbraith, William Bill
Wingett, Bill
Nolan, Emmett Rosy
Martinez, Paul
Barrios, Manuel
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £125
£60 Off!Now : £150.00VIEW EDITION...
REMARQUELimited edition of 25 remarques. Image size 30 inches x 13 inches (76cm x 33cm), Paper size 36.5 inches x 20.5 inches (92cm x 52cm) Galbraith, William Bill
Wingett, Bill
Nolan, Emmett Rosy
Martinez, Paul
Barrios, Manuel
Denison, Frank
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £165
£60 Off!Now : £395.00VIEW EDITION...
REMARQUELimited edition of 10 double remarques. Image size 30 inches x 13 inches (76cm x 33cm), Paper size 36.5 inches x 20.5 inches (92cm x 52cm) Galbraith, William Bill
Wingett, Bill
Nolan, Emmett Rosy
Martinez, Paul
Barrios, Manuel
Denison, Frank
+ Artist : Richard Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £165
£60 Off!Now : £625.00VIEW EDITION...
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Signatures on this item
*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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Captain Emmett Rosy Nolan
*Signature Value : £20

HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment


Cpl Forrest Guth
*Signature Value : £10 (matted)

Coming down, I had a malfunction of my parachute. It was twisted. The chute had not been properly packed. Or maybe it had been packed in damp conditions. We had not jumped high enough to be able to use the reserve. We had jumped under 500 feet. So my main chute opened but didn't open completely. You try to shake out the twist if you can, but there's so little time. I couldn't do a lot and came down fast. I just hoped for the best. I hit with a thud. I hit on my left hip and back and was knocked out. I don't remember much, just hitting hard and seeing stars. I was paralyzed in leg and back. I couldn't move. Medics came along, gave me a shot of morphine, and put me in a cattle barn. That was the extent of my fighting in Holland.


Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased)
*Signature Value : £45

Bill Wingett originally enlisted on 9th December 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, but after a car crash, hospitalisation and subsequent discharge from the forces meant he had to try again on 19th August 1942. Bill was a machine gunner with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne up until 5 days before D-Day where he was transferred to Headquarters Company. He fought in the campaigns of Normandy, Holland and Bastogne receiving a Purple Heart in each. Discharged on 23rd November 1945, Bill returned 10 months later to join the 82nd Airborne for 3 years as a maintenance man at Fort Bragg Airfield. He died on 1st October 2020 aged 98.
Private James Martin
*Signature Value : £15

G Company, 101st Airborne


S/Sgt Earl McClung
*Signature Value : £15 (matted)

E Company, 101st Airborne. Kaprun, Austria - I thought I had died and gone to heaven there. My job was to hunt and feed the prisoners that the Germans had taken for slave labor who were incarcerated there. The prisoners were freed by then but they had no place to go. I think they were Polish and Romanian mostly. The job fell to us to feed them. I fed them stag and chamois (goats with little hooked horns) until they were coming out of the ears. So I finally got to do some hunting like I enjoyed. I just camped out. [My outfit] saw me maybe once or twice a week.


Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased)
*Signature Value : £35 (matted)

Ed Tipper volunteered for the paratroopers and was assigned to Easy Company, 101st Airborne. He made his first jump into Normandy on D-Day. Fighting in Carentan, he was hit by a mortar shell and badly injured. His right eye was damaged, and later removed completely, while both his legs were broken. He was first sent to England then repatriated to the United States. When I came out of the Army I walked with a cane and wore an eye patch. The thing I remember most was the tremendous response of everybody I met to do everything they could do to show support for the military. Maybe the support felt exaggerated to me because I had clearly been shot up and wounded. Whenever I ate at a restaurant I went to the cashier and there was almost never a bill. Or the waitress nodded her head and said, 'A gentleman over at that table has paid.' Of course I was home a year ahead of everybody else. But that sort of thing happened to me a lot. He died on 1st February 2017.
Sergeant Manuel Barrios
*Signature Value : £20

Item Company, 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment


Sergeant William Bill Galbraith
*Signature Value : £20

A veteran of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Staff Sergeant Paul Martinez
*Signature Value : £20

Dog Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment

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