Savage Skies by Robert Taylor
Green Hearts Proof Edition
Overall Print Size: 34 5/8" x 23 1/2"
350 S/N by Artist and 10 Pilots
Aircraft Type: Fw190D - B-24 Liberator
The weather on the morning of 31 December, 1944 was already unpleasant. In the Ardennes, hard-pressed German troops were battling Allied ground forces advancing through several inches of snow. Above, darkening skies heralded the arrival of more snow. At 10:45am, in deteriorating weather, a battle formation of 30 Fw190D fighters climbed out of Varrelbusch and headed south over the snow-covered landscape.
Under the command of 12./JG54 Staffelkapitan, Oblt. Hans Dortenmann, and initially tasked to provide air cover to their beleaguered comrades below, the group was re-assigned to intercept enemy aircraft in the region of Limburg almost immediately the pilots were airborne. Flying south they ran directly into the oncoming weather, and with visibility dangerously reduced, Dortenmann elected to climb through the solid cloud into clear air. As the Fw190s broke cloud above the area of Koblenz they sighted a formation of nine 2nd Air Division B-24 Liberators and formed up for an attack.
Some 6000 feet above, top-cover P-51 Mustangs had watched the Fw190s climbing through the banks of clouds, and turned 180 degrees to position behind the Luftwaffe fighters. Diving in from their height advantage, the Mustang pilots entered the fray and within seconds the sky was filled with swirling dogfights.
Signed by Artist, and Three (3) JG54 Pilots:
- Major HANS-EKKEHARD BOB
- Leutnant NORBERT HANNIG
- Major ERIC RUDORFFER
The Green Heart Edition has also been signed by the following four JG54 Aces, and three pilots from the 453rd Bomb Group USAAF, to give a total of TEN signatures in this edition.
Additional Signatures:
THE GREEN HEART EDITIONAll the above plus:
- First Lieutenant ALBERT "BERT" BIEL
- Leutnant HUGO BROCH
- Colonel WILBUR LEE "WIB" CLINGAN
- Unteroffizzier GUSTAV DREES
- Lieutenant Colonel G W FORD
- Feldwebel HERIBERT KOLLER
- Leutnant HERMANN SCHLEINHEGE
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