Lightning Strike is one of a number of editions published during a period when the aviation art of Robert Taylor was starting to reach a truly international audience
Unleashing the full power of the Eighth Air Force against the Third Reich by day
000 under the command of Marshal Jean Lannes
On 29th and 30th April 1944
When the competition was next held just two years later
Normandy Sunrise by Gerald Coulson. ART427 Lightning Strike is one ofDHM2276. Normandy Sunrise by Gerald Coulson. Here, in the brightening morning sky, Typhoons are prepared for the first sortie of the day. One has already fired up its big, powerful engine, blowing up whirlwinds of Normandy dust, ground crew hover, ready to remove chocks prior to taxi and take off. A second is readied, while the remainder of the squadron, widely dispersed around the temporary field, are about to set about their deadly missions of the