Out Of The Sun - LFG Roland C.II by Ivan Berryman. (B) BAT294 Size 30 inches x 25

Size 30 inches x 25 inches (71cm x 64cm)

With our backs to the wall

before returning home safely

it was the cruelest of ironies that Halifax III LK789 (MP-L) of 76 Sqn should fall victim to a lone German fighter that was lurking in the night skies above Norfolk

553rd Bomb Squadron are among the first aircraft to bomb the beaches in readiness for the Normandy landings on that momentous day

Out Of The Sun - LFG Roland C.II by Ivan Berryman. (B) BAT294 Size 30 inches x 25DHM1788B. Out Of The Sun LFG Roland C. II by Ivan Berryman. One of the few rules of aerial combat that were established in the First World War was to attack, where possible, with the sun behind you, thus using the element of surprise both to appear as if from nowhere and to blind your opponent to minimise retaliation. Just such a tactic has been successfully employed here as a DH. 2 rakes the tail of Staffelfuhrer Hauptmann Rudolf Kleine's Jasta 3 LFG