I wonder what the Germans thought when they saw Lancasters coming towards them lit up like christmas trees

Is there an account from the German eye witnesses anywhere ?

I just the love the way RT1 does fire and mayhem too, you can feel the heat from here.

I really like this image, even with the quirky format.  It's not quite the first time around for "Last Moments of the Mohne Dam" - the last time it was done as pencil print for "The Dambusters Portfolio Edition" of "Operation Chastise", but only 50 lucky people in the world get to see it.  Wish I was one of them!

Any how, even though Collectors phot isnt strait on it somehow looks much better (richer) in contrast

What i was going to ask earlier was it says the painting was done a while ago & i take it collector is the owner ?

if so......were you told it was going to be in print when you bought it ?

Gollum said
When i look at this one something keeps going though my mine......Where is the rest of it ?

It looks like it's had the right hand side cut off

Very strange shape for RT, he usually goes for a very wide format

Very well painted but looks odd to me, i think at least a foot of the right hand side is missing

I agree, as that was my first thought too; I thought fuzzy had cropped the image.

Still, I like it. Its different, especially with the German soldiers, looking on in amazement and probably disbelief at the RAF's audacity and the pilots' bravery.

Wow - the original painting!  Spectacular!

So, when Peter Jackson's movie comes out, will we be seeing movie posters with this image on them?  That would be cool.

I'm guessing the painting is on the floor so you could get a good photo of it.  I hope it's got a place of honor on your wall the rest of the time.

fuzzy

Steve

I thought you might like to see a photo of the original -

http://www.militaryaviationmus.....rshow.html

Here is an email from the event coordinator on the WW2 veterans attending for those interested:

It looks like it's had the right hand side cut off

Very strange shape for RT, he usually goes for a very wide format

Very well painted but looks odd to me, i think at least a foot of the right hand side is missing

Robert Taylor’s sensational new painting The Last Moments of the Möhne Dam portrays the unfolding drama played out in those early hours of 17 May 1943. Guy Gibson and Mick Martin have both made successful runs, and ‘Hoppy’ Hopgood, hit by the flak, has crashed in flames. The dam wall, however, has held firm. Now it was the turn of Melvin ‘Dinghy’ Young in Lancaster AJ-A. In this vividly accurate scene, Gibson and Martin help draw the enemy’s fire as ‘Dinghy’ Young clears the dam’s parapet seconds after releasing his bomb. A few moments later Young’s bomb successfully detonated against the dam and deep groans rumbled through the granite wall as the shock ripped through it; under such stress the mighty blocks were imperceptibly shifting. The dam was mortally wounded.
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• Corporal KENNETH LUCAS RAF
• Sergeant FREDERICK E. SUTHERLAND RCAF

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• Flying Officer DAVE RODGER DFC RCAF
• Flight Lieutenant EDWARD JOHNSON DFC RAF
• Flight Lieutenant BILL TOWNSEND CGM DFM RAF
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