by
Nicolas trudgian
30" by 23"
500 signed and numbered
$185
'Heaven Can Wait' by Nicolas Trudgian is a moving tribute to the Bloody Hundredth showing the imaginatively named B-17 'Heaven Can Wait' on final approach to Thorpe Abbotts after the intense battle on September 11, 1944. Skillfully piloted by Harry Hempy, the seriously damaged B-17G has struggled 500 miles home on two engines to make it back to England. They lost their tail gunner that fateful day. Below the descending bomber stream, an agricultural traction engine peacefully ploughs the wheat stubble in preparation for next year's vital crop, the farm workers oblivious to the unimaginable traumas so recently experienced by the crews of the returning B-17 Fortresses. In addition to the artist, this print is individually signed in pencil by FOUR pilots and crew who flew with the 100th Bomb Group in Europe during World War 11.
