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Tigers Claws by Stan Stokes.
Curtiss had been the primary supplier of fighter aircraft to the U.S. Army Air Corps. since its inception, and the company was dismayed when the Army procured the Boeing P-26 Peashooter in 1932. Curtiss responded by hiring Mr. Donovan Berlin, a bright young engineer who was working for Northrop. Donovan developed the Hawk 75, a streamlined, low-wing, monoplane coastal defense fighter. With an enhanced Twin Wasp engine the Hawk 75 evolved into the P-36, which had a brief and fairly undistinguished career with the Air Corps. In 1938 a P-36 was retrofitted with the Allison in-line 12-cylinder, 1150 HP engine, and the P-40 was born. This was the beginning of what would eventually be a production run of more than 13,000 aircraft. Depending on its theater of operation and the particular model, the P-40 was alternatively known as the Tomahawk, the Kittyhawk, or the Warhawk. By mid-1942 P-40s were serving in every major conflict. The aircraft excelled in ground attack missions, but lacked the.........
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| | Item Code : STK0167 | Tigers Claws by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available |  |
| | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 4750 prints.
Full Item Details | Print size 16 inches x 11.5 inches (41cm x 30cm) | Artist : Stan Stokes | £15 Off! | Now : £35.00 | |
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Tiger Fire by Nicolas Trudgian.
In early 1941, many months before Pearl Harbor, an irrepressible bunch of American fighter pilots, together with 200 ground crew, came together and stood alone against the might of the Imperial Japanese Air Force. Under the indomitable command of General Claire Chennault, their task was to keep the vital road link open between the port of Rangoon and the city of Kunming in South West China. A treacherous unpaved track, hacked through mountain terrain and known as the infamous Burma Road, was the only lifeline for supplies into China from the outside world. With the Japanese hell-bent on its destruction, the Flying Tigers were all that stood between defeat and survival. With little support from home, and almost without replacement aircraft or spares, the P-40 Tomahawk pilots of the American Volunteer Group - the AVG - became the scourge of the Japanese Air Force and heroes to the people of China. In a six month period of combat, with no more than 50 or 60 serviceable aircraft at anyo.........
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| | Item Code : DHM2664 | Tiger Fire by Nicolas Trudgian. - Editions Available | |
| | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 1000 prints.
Full Item Details | Paper size 35 inches x 24 inches (88cm x 61cm) |  Hill, Tex 
Older, Charles
Rossi, Dick
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £210 | £120 Off!
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Full Item Details | Paper size 35 inches x 24 inches (88cm x 61cm) |  Hill, Tex 
Older, Charles
Rossi, Dick
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £210 | £80 Off! | Now : £340.00 | |
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Flying Tigers and Buffalos by Stan Stokes.
Claire Chennaults American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) continue to capture the imagination and interest of aviation history buffs more than fifty years after they flew combat missions for the Chinese Air Force. Composed of about ninety pilots and another 200 ground support personnel, the Tigers arrived in China in mid-1941. Flying Curtiss P-40s which had been rerouted from Britain to China, the Tigers flew from December of 1941 until mid-1942. Engaging a numerically superior Japanese force over a very wide front, the AVG was officially credited with downing 299 Japanese aircraft in aerial combat, and an additional 240 aircraft destroyed during ground attack missions. The Flying Tigers slowed the Japanese conquest in China, and caused Japan to focus more resources on this theater of operations than they had planned. Charles R. Bond was Vice Squadron Leader for the AVGs 1 Pursuit Squadron, the Adam and Eves. Bond was born in Dallas, Texas in 1915. He joined the Texas National Guard.........
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| | Item Code : STK0164 | Flying Tigers and Buffalos by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available | |
| | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 500 prints.
Full Item Details | Size 22 inches x 18 inches (56cm x 46cm) | Brown, Carl
Rosbert, Joe
Rossi, Dick
Bond, Charles R
+ Artist : Stan Stokes
Signature(s) value alone : £205 | £20 Off! | Now : £280.00 | |
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Spoiling the Party by Stan Stokes.
Claire Chennaults American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) continues to capture the imagination and interest of aviation history buffs more than fifty years after they flew combat missions for the Chinese Air Force. Composed of about ninety pilots and another 200 ground support personnel, the Tigers arrived in China in mid-1941. Flying Curtiss P-40s that had been rerouted from Britain to China, the Tigers flew from December of 1941 until mid-1942. Engaging a numerically superior Japanese force over a very wide front, the AVG was officially credited with downing 299 Japanese aircraft in aerial combat, and an additional 240 aircraft destroyed during ground attack missions. The Flying Tigers slowed the Japanese conquest in China, and caused Japan to focus more resources on this theater of operations than they had planned. Stan Stokes painting depicts a three-plane raid of a Japanese airstrip near Tak, Thailand. Early in the morning of January 3, 1942, three 2 d Pursuit Squadron (Panda Be.........
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| | Item Code : STK0202 | Tigers at Rest by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available | |
| | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 300 giclee art prints.
Full Item Details | Image size 21 inches x 14 inches (53cm x 36cm) | Artist : Stan Stokes | | SOLD
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CANVAS | Limited edition of 300 giclee canvas prints.
Full Item Details | Size 27 inches x 18 inches (69cm x 46cm) | none | | £400.00 | |
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Flying Tiger by Nicolas Trudgian.
Part of a small print series of six American WW2 aircraft, signed by some of the great American pilots, some no longer with us. Cranston Fine Arts have purchased the last remaining stocks of this aviation series.
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| | Item Code : DHM2651 | Flying Tiger by Nicolas Trudgian. - Editions Available | |
| | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 450 prints.
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Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item! | Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) | Older, Charles
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £70 |  | £65.00 | | ARTIST
PROOF | Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Older)
Full Item Details | Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) | Older, Charles
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £70 | | £75.00 | | ARTIST
PROOF | Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Hill)
Full Item Details | Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) | Hill, Tex
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £75 | | £75.00 | | ARTIST
PROOF | Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Hill / Older)
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Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item! | Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) | Older, Charles
Hill, Tex
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £145 | | £85.00 | | ARTIST
PROOF | Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. (Bond)
Full Item Details | Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) | Bond, Charles R
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £55 | | £75.00 | | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (Hill)
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Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item! | Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) | Hill, Tex
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £75 | | £65.00 | | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 250 prints. (Hill / Older)
Full Item Details
Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item! | Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) | Hill, Tex
Older, Charles
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £145 | | £75.00 | | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (Bond)
Full Item Details | Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) | Bond, Charles R
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £55 | | £65.00 | | EX-DISPLAY
PRINT | **Signed limited edition of 450 prints. (One print reduced to clear)
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Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item! | Paper size 11.5 inches x 9 inches (30cm x 23cm) | Older, Charles
+ Artist : Nicolas Trudgian
Signature(s) value alone : £70 | £5 Off! | Now : £60.00 | |
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Sayonara Sally by Stan Stokes.
Claire L. Chennault retired in 1937 and began a second career in China where he set up a number of flying schools and airfields. A personal friend of Chiang Kai-shek Chennault was asked to organize a unit of experienced American combat pilots to help fight the Japanese. Chennault sent recruiters to American military installations and was able to organize the American Volunteer Group or AVG by late 1941. The group later became better known as the Flying Tigers, and their distinctive shark-mouthed P-40s became a well-recognized symbol. There were three AVG squadron; the Adam and Eves, the Panda Bears, and the Hells Angels. On December 23, 1941 sixty Sally heavy bombers of the 60th , 62nd , and 68th Sentai based at Bangkok and Phnom Penh were supposed to rendezvous over Bangkok and head to Rangoon for a bombing raid. The three units failed to join up as planned and they also failed to rendezvous with their fighter escorts for the mission. As the sixty aircraft approached Rangoon they wer.........
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| | Item Code : STK0168 | Sayonara Sally by Stan Stokes. - Editions Available | |
| | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 500 prints, signed by all the surviving AVG pilots of the 3rd Pursuit Sqn; Charles Older, Ken Jernstedt, Paul Greene, Robert Raine, Erik Shilling and the artist.
Full Item Details | Image Size 22 inches x 18 inches (56cm x 46cm) | Older, Charles
Jernstedt, Kenneth A
+ Artist : Stan Stokes
Signature(s) value alone : £105 | | £340.00 | |
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Chennault's Flying Tigers by Robert Taylor.
P40 Tomahawks of the American Volunteer Group fought against the Japanese air force in the skies over Indo-China during World War 2 and became one of the most successful and famous fighter units of all time. Strangled by the Japanese blockade of its sea ports, and with supplies from Russia diverted to combat Hitler's invasion, China was left with one lifeline for vital supplies from the outside world: a treacherous unpaved track hacked through mountain terrain linking the port of Rangoon with the city of Kumming, in South West China - it was the infamous Burma Road. With the Impirial Japanese air force hell-bent on destroying Chinas last supply link, opposition had almost evaporated but for a tiny air force of American volunteers led by the indomitable figure of Claire Chennault. Formed in early 1941, months before Pearl Harbor, a rag-tag bunch of 100 recruited flyers supported by 200 ground personnel, known as the American Volunteer Group came together to stand alone against th.........
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Summer of 42 by John D Shaw.
In this superb tribute to one of the most famous fighter units of WWII the serenity of the beautiful Li River is broken as P40 Tomahawks of the AVG Flying Tigers, bearing their famous shark-mouth motif, return to base at Kweilin.
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| | Item Code : DHM2633 | Summer of 42 by John D Shaw. - Editions Available | |
| | TYPE | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 850 prints.
Full Item Details | Paper size 39.5 inches x 21 inches (100cm x 53cm) | Bond, Charles R
Rosbert, Joe
Rossi, Dick
Vaux, Morgan H
Hill, Tex
Keeton, Robert B
Layher, Robert F
Mott, Charles D
Wright, Peter
Baisden, Charles N
Clouthier, Leo Paul
Jernstedt, Kenneth A
Losonsky, Frank S
Poshefko, Joseph
Stiles, Edward L
Janski, Edwin A
+ Artist : John D Shaw
Signature(s) value alone : £675 | | SOLD
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