18" x 22"
FOR PURCHASE. Matted ensemble as shown. $950 (SOLD)
Depicting a Canadian Typhoon, with pencil drawing of F/Lt Don Banting, his biography and the two original signatures of F/Lt Banting and F/Lt. Ken Storey.
F/Lt Don Banting was in action on ground attack operations during WWII. On one occasion he attacked the railway marshalling yards at Munchen-Gladback on the edge of the Ruhr Valley. He came in extra low and the Germans always expected a Typhoon to turn left at the end of a bomb run. So he turned right and delivered his 4,000 bomb right on the switchgear without a shot being fired at him. All the guns were trained left! He has 107 operational sorties. Awards include the D.F.C.
F/Lt. Ken Storey was in the R.A.F. on Hurricanes before being assigned to Hawker Typhoons. He enjoyed two complete engine failures (for which Typhoons were famous). One of his wrecked cockpits is on display at Duxford Museum. He hit a Ju-88 on one sortie and on another received a complete line of bullet holes across one wing and spinner. At war’s end he was with 29 Night Fighter Squadron (Mosquitos).
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