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William Phillips Welcome Home Yank

" WELCOME HOME, YANK "
William Phillips
March 2011

150 Signed & Numbered Giclee Canvas
21" x 28"
$595

 


March 2011 - Welcome Home , Yank - William Phillips

A B-24 has lost one engine and streams smoke from another. She’s close to the
White Cliffs of Dover but not out of trouble. Any second now, the last power
may fail. Without enough altitude for a safe bail-out, her crew will brace for
ditching and the English Channel is cold and choppy. She’s got one thing
going for her - a Spitfire Mark IXB of the 403 Squadron based at Kenley
-Middlesex has come to meet her and weaves above. If her pilot chooses
to ditch, the Spit pilot will tell Air-Sea Rescue.
When Bill did this painting, he liked it from the start. Old bomber pilots like
it, too. Many recalled the exact situation, the irony of struggling out of
enemy skies only to go down a few miles from the home base and the
joy of seeing an RAF plane coming to ride herd. Built as an interceptor,
the Spitfire lacked range for escorting the bombers very far. But all
agreed that the plane was a beauty and never more so than when
it played Samaritan for its wounded allies.


 

 

WElcome Home, Yank - William Phillips

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March 2011 - Welcome Home , Yank - William Phillips