The Battle for New Years Day by Nicholas Trudgian

Overall size: 72.5 cm x 51 cm. Image size 61cm x 37 cm

In his P51D Mustang ‘Moonbeam McSwine’, Captain ‘Whiz’ Whisner leads Red Section of the 487th FS 352nd FG headlong into the defense of their airfield at Asch, Belgium. At dawn, on the New Year’s Day of 1945, Whisner was to be responsible for four of the twenty three German fighters of JG11 shot down by the 352nd. So rapid was the American response that the German attack was repelled, and the 487th was subsequently awarded a Distinguished Unit Citation.

The Signatures

Signed by the following pilots of 352nd FG

Lieutenant Colonel Don Bryan

DSC, DFC with 2 OLC’s, Air Medal with 14 OLC’s, DUC

Major Alden P Rigby

Silver Star Air Medal with 7 OLC, DUC

Captain Robert H Powell Jr

DFC with 2 OLC’s, Air medal with 3 OLC’s, DUC

Colonel Walter Starck

Air Medal with 7 OLC’s, DFC with 2 OLC, Purple Heart, DUC, AFCM

Lieutenant Colonel Chester V Harker

DFC with 1 OLC, Air Medal with 10 OLC’s DUC

Lieutenant Raymond R Mitchell

DFC, Air Medal with 5 OLC, DUC

The Editions

• Main Edition of 352 prints £120.00
• Remarque Edition of 30 prints £265.00
• Canvas Giclee Edition of 20 prints £275.00