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Abillament del cavaller medieval vora el 1250.

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1942 10 24 Daylight over Milan - Graham Turner

After attacks on Genoa on 22/23 and 23/24 October, which were designed to coincide with Montgomery's El Alamein offensive, Harris at the morning conference at HQ Bomber Command on 24 October decided to switch targets to Milan. Unlike Genoa, with its ports and shipyards, or Turin, with its war industries, the attack on Milan - the political and commercial centre of northern Italy - was for morale purposes and the effect on the civilian population. As a result, this attack was unusual in not being one single night raid. Instead, Harris chose to split the attack: 5 Group's Lancasters by day - perhaps to highlight British air superiority over a major Italian city - and the other Groups' 'heavies' at night. This battle scene features the daylight attack, which saw 88 Lancasters take off to bomb the aiming point of 'Milan "A"' - the city centre - though this caused controversy afterwards when it became public that the Duomo had been the aiming point . Seventy-four aircraft dropped 51.8 tons of HE bombs and 81.5 tons of incendiaries on Milan. As cloud over Milan was down to 3,000 ft, and since the bombs dropped included a good number of 4,000-pounders, release from below this height was in some cases avoided so a number of Lancasters stayed above the cloud, bombing at between 8,000 ft and 12,000 ft. A number went below the cloud and down to 2,000ft to identify the aiming point, however, and this is depicted in this battle scene. One Lancaster even got down to 50ft, where, the Italian authorities claimed, it strafed buildings and machine-gunned people in the streets; indeed, the Lancaster of Wg Cdr J. M. Southwell, 9 Squadron's CO, admitted later to having 'used 7,000 rounds machine-gunning two trains on the Milan-Novara railway and strafing what he said was Novara'. Nonetheless, photographic evidence - taken both during the bombing and later on by a reconnaissance aircraft - revealed that a large amount of damage was inflicted - mainly by fire - on industrial premises all over Milan, and the railway lines to Bologna,Genoa and Venice and along the St Gothard route had been severed. The main railway station had been particularly damaged, as were areas around the Porto Novara Station and the Parco Solari and many industrial premises, such asthe GEC Engineering Works, Municipal Tramways and the Caproni aircraft factory. Mussolini publically admitted damage to nearly 2,500 houses, with 450 completely demolished. For the British, the losses were three Lancasters(3.4 per cent), one having crashed over Milan and two others shot down by Luftwaffe night-fighters around Caen in France. These were light considering this had been a risky long-distance run in daylight across Axis-dominated Europe.Damage to aircraft was another matter, however. Several bombers had been damaged either by flak over Milan or enroute, by colliding with a seagull over the target, by a Macchi C.202 Folgore, by hitting high-tension electric cables,or by crash-landing at an emergency airfield in Sussex. A total of ten aircraft (11.45 per cent) were damaged, half ofthem seriously. While the day raiders were landing at their bases in England, another force of 71 aircraft, comprising the Stirlings,Halifaxes and Wellingtons from the PFF, 1, 3 and 4 Groups, was already over Milan. Although thick cloud covered the target, they could see the glow of the fires started by the Lancasters five hours earlier, and proceeded to bomb those. Further destruction to Milan, although not extensive, was caused

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Henry IV at the Battle of Barnet against the Earl of Warwick

Easter Sunday, 14 April 1471

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1917 04 23 SE5 Ball vs Rumpler - Graham Turner

While No. 56 Squadron was equipped with S.E.5s, Britain’s top ace, flight commander Captain Albert Ball (with 30 aerial victories, mostly in a Nieuport), was sceptical about the new machine and was given permission to continue tofly his Nieuport 23 on lone patrols. On 23 April 1917, No. 56 Squadron began patrols with the S.E.5s. Because his Nieuport had been damaged in an early-morning encounter, Ball took up an S.E.5 (no. A4850) at 1130hrs and soonran into a flight of Albatros D.IIIs. He downed one and managed to break contact with the rest using the S.E.5’s superior speed. While returning to his airfield at 1230hrs, Ball encountered a lone Albatros C.III observation planefrom Flieger Abt 7 near the front lines north of Cambrai. In a diving attack Captain Ball put 40 rounds into the German machine, disabling it and wounding the observer. With a smoking engine, the German aircraft dived to the ground and managed to land. The German pilot and observer survived. Captain Ball now saw the worth of the S.E.5. Not only did the two machine guns give him extra firepower, but the speed advantage of the S.E.5 gave the pilot the initiative to initiate or break contact with enemy aircraft. Captain Ball would go on to shoot down 11 more German aircraft before his death in combat in May 1917.

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1455 05 22 Saint Albans - Graham Turner

On the 22nd May 1455, the struggle for control of the government of England boiled over into armed conflict in the first battle of what would become known as the Wars of the Roses. The following thirty years would see the throne itself become the prize for the rival Royal houses of Lancaster and York.When King Henry VI regained his sanity in January 1455, the Duke of York`s brief protectorate came to an end and his chief rival, the Duke of Somerset, regained his position of influence at court.York withdrew to the north and began mustering men, supported by his brother in law, the Earl of Salisbury, and Salisbury`s son, Richard Neville, the Earl of Warwick, later known as the `Kingmaker`.Advancing towards London, the Yorkist force found the Royal army positioned in the small town of St. Albans. When negotiations for the Duke of Somerset's surrender broke down, York`s men stormed the town`s defences while Warwick broke into the market place through alleys and gardens, attacking the Lancastrian centre.Graham Turner`s painting dramatically recreates the scene as Warwick's men, wearing their red liveries and badges of the Bear and Ragged Staff, advance through the medieval market place, while the 'Kingmaker', in the latest Milanese armour, raises his visor to greet the Duke of York. York, with his Standard bearer beside him, is indicating in the direction of the Castle Inn, site of Somerset`s last stand, and the Abbey towers over the proceedings as it still does today.

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1916 02 12 East Africa, South African infantry attack Salaita Hill - Graham Turner

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Illustration and statement by Graham Turner, artist:

The painting shows an incident from the battle of Roundway Down (July 13, 1643) that illustrates how thick and heavy armour had become at this time.

Captain Richard Atkyns found himself facing a Parliamentarian dressed in full cuirassier armour, whom he believed to be Sir Arthur Haslerigge. Atkyns reported “..I then immediately struck into him, and touched him before I discharged mine (his pistol); and I’m sure he staggered, and presently wheeled off from his party and ran….. Follow him I did, and in six score yards I came up to him, and discharged the other pistol at him, and I’m sure I hit his head, for I touched it before I gave fire….

Hearing the story Charles I said of Haslerigge “Had he been victualled as well as fortified, he might have endured a siege of seven years”.

This was painted for ‘Ironsides – English Cavalry 1588-1688’, one of the many books I’ve illustrated for Osprey. This original has sold, but it is available as a print – please visit my website for details.

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1944 10  10 Petsamo and Kirkenes - Graham Turner

German commander Hauptmann Walitschek with his 13th Company of the 136th Gebirgsheger Regiment on Lanhoe as they prepare to ambush a Soviet group on the morning of October 10, 1944.

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1895 Panhard - Graham Turner

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Ten years ago today, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies premiered.

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Sons of Durin The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

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1940 07 04 Malta, Fiat CR 42 9º Gruppo attack British airfield - Graham Turner

repost improved color

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hannigram/twotl x would you go with me

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1917 04 05 The Bristol first fight - Graham Turner

On 5 April 1917, the first air combat took place between the Bristol F.2A ond the Albatros D.lII. Ny late morning, t visibility had improved and a flight of six Bristol; from No. 48 Squadron, led by Captain William Robinson VC, encountered a flight of five Albatros D.IIIls from Jasta 11, led by Oberleutnant Manfred von Richthofen (he was promoted lo Rittmeister two days later] Robinson, who hod won the Victoria Cross For shooting down a Zeppelin in 1916. had little experience in fighting the German Jastas. Encountering the Germans over Douai, Robinson took a cautious approach and bunched his aircraft in a tight formation- hoping that the mutual defensive fire of the rear gunners would drive the Germans away. The British pilots flew their machines as if they were the staid B E 2s rather than well powered, highly maneuverable aircraft that they were. It was a fatal mistakes as the speedy and rugged Bristols would later prove themselves excellent ina dogfight. Diving on the British formation von Richthofen shot down two of the Bristols, Leutnant Simon another and Vizefeldwebel Festner a fourth - that of Caplain Robinson. Only two Brislols returned to base, with one so badly damaged that it had to be scrapped. The Jasta 11 flight suffered no damage.

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