Each photo measures 5" by 7" with a white border on all sides with the signature handsigned on the specially elongated bottom margin.
The photograph is from the 1939-1945 period and has been reproduced and then signed by Wing Commander Peter Cundy DSO DFC AFC TD.
This signed photo forms part of a limited edition of Allied Aircraft photographs. This is number 1 in the new series, produced by ourselves. Each photograph has been handsigned and they are all numbered and certified on the reverse. Each photograph is a limited edition of 100.
The photograph shows Liberators of 120 Squadron Coastal Command being equipped and serviced in between sorties. The Liberator is distinctive as it has the TV aerial like protusions from the wings which were part of the radar equipment used for detecting U-Boats. This photograph was probably taken in late 1941at RAF Nutts Corner. This photograph would make the perfect companion to the Corgi Aviation Archive 120 Squadron Liberator.
Wing Commander Peter Cundy DSO DFC AFC TD
RAF Coastal Command pilot
Cundy joined the Territorial Army in 1936 and served with the 9th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Trained as an infantry solider after the Munich crisis in 1938 the unit was trained in using anti-aircraft searchlights. In 1940 he transferred to the RAF for Army Co-operation duties, and his flying training began in April. Having completed his training he was posted to 53 (Army Co-operation) Squadron at RAF Thorney Island flying Blenheims. In May 1940 he took part in bombing raids against the Biscay ports, including the attacks on Brest where Scharnhorst, Gneisneau and Prince Eugen were in residence. We usually have lots of other items up for sale so why not have a look
Having completed his first tour Cundy and his crew were posted to 120 Squadron equipped with Liberators providing air escort to the Atlantic Convoys. On 22 May 1941 Cundy spotted and attacked U-373 along with her blockade runner and escorting Heinkel 115 aircraft. Short afterwards he and his crew were tasked to test a new type of radar, later to be know as ASV 3, and once the trials were complete reported their findings to MIT in Boston, USA in May 1942. In the USA Cundy and his crew were assigned to ‘Special Duties’ and attached to USAAC 2nd Sea Attack Group based at Langley Field in Virginia, flying patrols off the Eastern Seaboard. During this period he attacked a U-Boat but the depth charges failed to detonate.
In October 1942 Cundy and his crew joined No 224 Squadron, as 'A' Flight commander, which was converting from Hudsons to Liberators at Beaulieu. The squadron moved to St Eval to patrol the Bay of Biscay, and on 26 February 1943 he attacked U-437 and later the same day attacked and seriously damaged U-508. On 3 July he attacked and sunkU-628, however his aircraft was very badly damaged and flew home on three engines.
Tour expired Cundy was promoted to Wing Commander and instructed along with Wing Commander Leigh (the inventor of the Leigh Light) on submarine attack tactics. He went on to have a long post war career in the RAF retiring in 1963.