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On the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, I am offering a select few Airborne prints from my collection. All the extra signatures were added when I brought these prints to several “World War Two Weekend” events in Reading, PA and several “Wings Over The Beach” events at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, VA over the course of many years.
John Young A BOLD LEAP 8 Extra BAND OF BROTHERS Signature Aviation Art Print
CONDITION: Outstanding. This print was issued matted by the publisher. It was removed from the matting and mailed in a tube when I purchased it from the UK. There are no creases or bent corners and there is no fading whatsoever. This print was published in 1993, but this 30 year old print looks brand new.
SIZE: 21 by 27 inches
SIGNATURES: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil by the artist John Young, the original signer of this print edition General Sir John Hackett, and 8 additional incredible British and American soldiers who fought in Market Garden were added:
General Sir John Hackett (British Commander of 4th Parachute Brigade at Arnhem)
Bob Noody (F-Company 506th PIR)
Brad Freeman (“Band of Brothers” 506th PIR)
Ed Babe Heffron (“Band of Brothers” 506th PIR)
Ed Mauser (“Band of Brothers” 506th PIR)
Buck Compton (“Band of Brothers” 506th PIR)
Jake McNeice (“Filthy Thirteen” 506th PIR)
Colin Fowler (British ‘E’ Sqdn Glider Pilot)
Don Malarkey (“Band of Brothers” 506th PIR)
NUMBER: 326 / 495
Comes with the Certificate of Authenticity.
Truly a one-of-a-kind print with additional signatures collected on two continents.
In my opinion, this is the finest artwork depicting an airborne drop from a C-47 ever done. Couple this image with the incredible array of signatures on this print - eight of them added after the print was published - and you have one of the finest airborne prints in existence.
The print was published with the signature of General Sir John Hackett. A collector in the UK added the signature of British Horsa glider pilot Colin Fowler (surely nicknamed “Flaps” as any pilot named “Fowler” should be). The remaining seven 506th PIR “Band of Brothers” signatures were added by me at a World War 2 Weekend in Reading, PA many years ago. The signature of “Filthy Thirteen” member Jake McNeice is icing on the cake! Nothing like this print exists anywhere. It is truly one of a kind.
In 1944, Hackett raised and commanded the 4th Parachute Brigade for the Allied assault on Arnhem, in Operation Market Garden. In battle at Arnhem Brigadier Hackett was severely wounded in the stomach, was captured and was taken to the St. Elizabeth Hospital in Arnhem. A German doctor at the hospital wanted to administer a lethal injection to Hackett because he thought that the case was hopeless. However, he was operated on by Alexander Lipmann-Kessel, who, with superb surgery, managed to save the brigadier's life. After a period of recuperation, he managed to escape with the help of the Dutch underground. Although he was unfit to be moved, the Germans were about to move him to a prisoner-of-war camp. He was taken by 'Piet van Arnhem', a resistance worker from Ede, and driven to Ede. They were stopped on the way but Hackett had extra bloody bandages applied to make him look even worse than he was. Piet told the checkpoint that they were taking him to hospital. They were let through despite the hospital being in the opposite direction from which they had just come. He was hidden by a Dutch family, called de Nooij, who lived at No. 5 Torenstraat in Ede. The family nursed the brigadier back to health over a period of several months; he then managed to escape again with the help of the underground.
McNiece enlisted for military service on September 1, 1942. He was assigned to the demolition saboteur section of what was then the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. This section would become the Filthy Thirteen, first led by Lieutenant Charles Mellen, who was killed in action on June 6, 1944 during the Invasion of Normandy. Following Mellen's death, Sergeant McNiece led the unit. McNiece's demolitions experience with the fire department before the war made him the section sergeant, but his mission focus kept him in that rank in spite of his deliberate disobedience and disrespect during training. His first sergeant and company commanders knew he was the man the regiment could count on during combat. His escapades are documented in both his words in The Filthy Thirteen, Fighting With the Filthy Thirteen, and War Paint; The Filthy Thirteen Jump Into Normandy. McNiece went on to make a total of four wartime combat jumps, the first as part of the Invasion of Normandy in 1944. In the same year he jumped as part of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands, which was featured in the book (and subsequent film), A Bridge Too Far, and at the Siege of Bastogne, part of the larger Battle of the Bulge. During fighting in the Netherlands, he was promoted to demolition platoon sergeant. He volunteered for pathfinder training, anticipating he would sit out the rest of the war training in England, but his pathfinder stick was called upon to jump into Bastogne to guide in resupply drops. His last jump was in 1945, near Prüm in Germany. In recognition of his natural leadership abilities, he ended the war as the acting first sergeant for Headquarters Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
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