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Original pencil drawings by David Pentland. Our complete collection of pencil drawings by artist David Pentland, including aviation and military drawings. We only list those drawings available to purchase - feel free to contact us to discuss any of the drawings you see here should you wish more information. |
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![]() D-Day Recce by David Pentland. (P) Juno Beach, Normandy, 6th June 1944. Sdkfz 232 armoured cars of 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion commanded by Obersturmfuhrer Peter Hansmann observe the Canadian beachhead at Juno Beach. His small team was tasked with finding out if an invasion was actually underway and it drove some 80km, arriving at the coast near Tracy at 7.30 in the morning to witness the landings in progress. Price of this original : £380 An Amazing Saving of £200 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Fire by David Pentland. (P) Norrey en Bessin, Normandy, 11th July 1944. A 75mm PAK (anti-tank) gun of the 26th Panzer Grenadier Regiment engages Sherman tanks of the Canadian 1st Hussars in front of Norrey en Bessin. Price of this original : £480 An Amazing Saving of £120 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Last Days by David Pentland. (P) Berlin, Germany, 24th April 1945. Following an escort mission near the capital, the Ta152H of Stabsschwarm JG301 encountered a group of Soviet Yak 9s. In the ensuing dogfight, Hauptmann Hermann Stahl was shot sown while Oberfeldwebel Willi Reschke Green 9 and Oberfeldwebel Walter Loos Green 4 claimed 2 Yaks destroyed each. Price of this original : £300 An Amazing Saving of £300 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() First Combat by David Pentland. (P) Franco-German border, 22md November 1939. While flying a routine border Frei Jagd for some reconnaissance Dorniers, eight Me109s of 3./JG2 were engaged by fourteen French Curtiss Hawks of GC II/4. During the ensuing dogfight, the first combat for the Richthofen Geschwader since WW1, two of the French fighters were shot down. The first by Lt Helmut Wick, was flown by the French ace Adjutant Camille Plubeau (14 victories) the other by Ofw Erwin Kley. Wick was to go on to become one of the great aces of the Battle of Britain, achieving 56 victories before his death in November 1940. Price of this original : £390 An Amazing Saving of £125 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Stabsschwarm by David Pentland. (P) Etaples, Northern France, 13th October 1941. Me109F-4s of Stabsschwarm JG2, flown by Geschwaderkommodore Major Walter Oesau, Oberleutnant Erich Leie, Oberleutnant Rudolf Rudi Pflanz, and Gefreiter Gunther Hupatz Seeger. Each was a notable ace in his own right but together they were a formidable combination. On this sortie alone they accounted for 5 RAF Spitfires. Price of this original : £490 An Amazing Saving of £60 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() African Expedition by David Pentland. (P) Tunisia, North Africa, 4th January 1943. At 1600 hours, eight Fw190s from JG2 were scrambled from Kairouan airfield to intercept enemy aircraft flying recon over the Sbeitla and Fondouk areas. The Allied formation came from Thelepte airfield and consisted of 6 Spitfires from the US 4th Fighter Squadron, 52 Fighter Group, and 6 Spitfires from the US 5th Fighter Squadron, 52nd Fighter Group, escorting 5 P-39s. The Fw190s were south of Ousseltia when air combat with the escorting Spitfires began. It was during this engagement that Staffelkapitan Oberleutnant Rudorffer Yellow 1 of 6/JG2 claimed 2 of the American Spitfires. Price of this original : £310 An Amazing Saving of £310 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Kannonenboot by David Pentland. (P) Adriatic coast, Greece, 20th Dece,ber 1943. 20mm cannon armed Messerschmitt 109G-6/R6 trop, flown by Oberleutnant Josef-Emil Clade, Staffelkapitan 7/JG27 White 9 and his wingman White 7. Price of this original : £310 An Amazing Saving of £310 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Lucky 13 by David Pentland. (P) St Nazaire, France, 3rd January 1943. The Fw190A4 of Georg-Peter Schorsch Eder, 7/JG2, streaks past Meat Hound, a B17F of th 423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group en route to attack the U-boat pens at St Nazaire. Along with his Gruppenkommandeur Egon Mayer, it was Eder who pioneered the head on pass tactic against the Flying Fortresses. On this day he to achieve his thirteenth victory, and second B17. By the end of the war he had accounted for some 36 heavy bombers. Price of this original : £310 An Amazing Saving of £310 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Jagers by David Pentland. (P) Zhitomir, Russia, February 1943. On 6th January 1943, Gefreiter Hugo Broch was posted to II./JG54 on the eastern front, and assigned to 6./JG54. His first combat experiences were as Kaczmarek (wingman) to Horst Adameit (166 victories) and Heinrich Bazi Sterr (130 victories) flying cannon-armed Me109G-2s against both Soviet air and ground targets. Price of this original : £680 Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Early Risers by David Pentland. (P) Gramatikovo, Russia, 19th March 1944. Oberleutnant Walter Wolfrum (Black 15) and wingman of 5 Staffel JG52 take off on a dawn patrol. By the end of the day Oberleutnant Wolfrum would have accounted for 5 Soviet aircraft. Price of this original : £700 Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Hunting Sturmoviks by David Pentland. (P) Riga, Latvia, 30th June 1944. Recently promoted Leutnant Otto Bruno Kittel. of 3 Staffel, JG54, chases his quarry at treetop level during a late evening sortie. The downing of this flying tank brought his tally on this day to 4, a Yak, a P39 and two Sturmoviks. Although not well known, Kittel was the fourth highest ranking ace, with 267 victories to his credit, including some 94 of the dreaded Sturmoviks. Price of this original : £390 An Amazing Saving of £200 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Unhappy New Year by David Pentland. (P) B78 Eindhoven, Holland, 1st January 1945. Major Heinz Bar, Kommodore of Jagdgeswader 3, bounces a flight of 438 Squadron RCAF Typhoons attempting to take off from Eindhoven airfield. His attack was merely the start of a massed attack by the entire JG3, some 60 aircraft, which were only several minutes behind him. Despite losing some 15 pilots killed or captured, the attack destroyed 44 aircraft on the ground, and 9 in the air, including 2 Typhoons by Major Bar. An additional 60 were badly damaged. Price of this original : £460 An Amazing Saving of £100 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Taran over the Kuban by David Pentland. (P) Crimea, 7th August 1943. While flying a late afternoon combat patrol with Otto Fonnekolds schwarm, from 5 staffel, JG52, Willi Batz witnessed a taran or ramming attack by a soviet fighter on a Luftwaffe Fw189 artillery spotter. Then a second Spitfire, which Batz mistook for an Aircobra attempted to finish off the crew which had just bailed out. At this point Batz was able to intervene and opened fire on the Spitfire forcing the Russian to take to his own parachute. This was to be his 12th victory, his final tally would be 237. Unfortunately for the German crew they were all captured on landing. Price of this original : £700 Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Above the Cauldron by David Pentland. (P) Borisov, Russia, 2nd July 1941. The battle for Minsk lasted 12 days, when it ended 300,000 soviet troops had been taken prisoner. In the air fierce battles were fought to smash an escape route to the citys defenders. It was during this chaos that Gerd Barkhorn scored his first victory against a Soviet DB-3 bomber. He had flown 120 missions throughout the Battle of Britain, and only succeeded in being shot down himself. It was only in Russia that his career really took off. By the end of the war he was credited with 301 victories in 1104 missions. Price of this original : £450 An Amazing Saving of £100 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Head on Pass by David Pentland. (P) St Nazaire, France, 1st January 1943. Leading the Focke Wulf 190s of III Gruppe, Jagdgeswader 2, Gruppenkommandeur Egon Mayer, cut a swathe through the attacking waves of US Eigth Airforce B17s. The recently developed tactic of the head on pass was proving successful against the daylight heavy bombers, with Mayer claiming 2 for himself in this engagement. Price of this original : £700 Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Feldwebel Heinz Gartner - Where is Hill 128 by David Pentland. (P) Mor, Hungary, 1st January 1945. Feldwebel Heinz Gartner and Oberleutnant von Rosen, plus a handful of other King Tigers of Heavy Tank battalion 503, searched for the units objective, Hill 128. Despite heavy snow and poor visibility, the Tigers found and took the hill, routing the strong Soviet defences present. By the end of the war Feldwebel Gartner had destroyed 103 enemy tanks. Price of this original : £330 An Amazing Saving of £330 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Guard Duty by David Pentland. (P) Tscherkassy Pocket, Russia, 13th February 1944. The two Tiger Is of Feldwebel Heinz Gartner and Oberfahnrich Heinrich Rondorf, of Heavy Tank battalion 503 destroyed a surprise Soviet counter attack by some 15 T-34s from Chishinzy village. By now the relief force Panzer Regiment Bake of which they are part were only a few days away from opening a corridor to the Korsun pocket. By the end of the war these two tank commanders had destroyed 103 and 106 enemy tanks respectively. Price of this original : £460 An Amazing Saving of £400 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Oberfahnrich Heinrich Rondorf - Jagdtiger at Bay by David Pentland. (P) Iserlohn, Rhur, 15th April 1945. In the closing days of the war, US forces surrounded the town of Iserlohn. Lying in wait, Oberfanrich Rondorf destroyed 3 of the advancing Shermans, bringing his total score of enemy tanks destroyed to 106 - at least 5 of these in the giant Jagdtiger. This action was the last for Panzerjager Battalion 512, as it surrendered itself and the town the following day. Price of this original : £460 An Amazing Saving of £400 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Feldwebel Johann Muller - Tigers to the Front by David Pentland. (P) Lake Ladoga, Leningrad 13th January 1943. Feldwebel Muller of 1st Company, Heavy Tank battalion 502, was mentioned in dispatches for his actions in the Second Battle of Lake Ladoga. During the Soviet offensive he accounted for some 25 enemy tanks and by the end of the war he had destroyed 50. Price of this original : £560 An Amazing Saving of £300 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
![]() Captain Hans Bölter - Struggle in the Snow by David Pentland. (P) Lake Ladoga, Leningrad 17th February 1943. Oberfeldwebel Hans Bölter and his platoon leader Lt.Meyer, supporting Kampfgruppe Sudau during the Second Battle of Lake Ladoga. In a day long engagement the two Tiger Is of 1st Company, Heavy Tank battalion 502 destroyed a succession of anti-tank guns, tanks and infantry attacks. Lt Meyer knocked out 10 KV1s in as many minutes and by the wars end Hans Bolter had accounted for at least 144 enemy tanks, making him one of the great Panzer aces. Price of this original : £520 An Amazing Saving of £100 ! Want to discuss this item with us? Contact us at cranstonorders@outlook.com |
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