Winter Freedom Acrylic Print

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Mustang Series

Winter Freedom

A section of P51 Mustangs returning to base over the harsh winter landscape of Western Europe. The winter of 1944-45 was one of the hardest on record and many days passed without any flight operations. The group in the image are seen returning from an interdictor sortie and revelling in the low-level operational freedom afforded by the almost complete air superiority at that time.

With that superiority it was realised that there was no real need for the drab cammo schemes seen earlier in the war and the fighter pilots made the most of it in expressing their individual colour paint jobs. The leading P51 is that flown by Don Gentile of the 4th Fighter Group based at Debden.

Have been interested in photography since just after WW2, when film became freely available again, using Kodak Autographic equipment. Graduated, in the 50's, to 35mm and was involved in photographic work during my 17 yrs as RAF aircrew - navigator. Since retirement and migrating to Canon digital equipment have been involved with two of my sons and one grandson in a considerable amount of photographic activity, particularly composite images. Now producing digital art prints with the major emphasis on classic warbird aviation. With son, Duncan, now becoming a well-known and published wild life photographer we have started, in 2017, a new gallery reflecting Scottish sea birds - and 'feathered' flight