Leutnant der Reserve Erwin Bohme by Ivan Berryman. (GL) OPN45 2 was to fall victim

2 was to fall victim to the shortsightedness of a misguided Labour government whose entrenched position in the mid 1960s dealt a terrible blow to the British aircraft industry - a blow from which it never fully recovered

Study for the original painting Eve of Distinction

Such was their vulnerability that these huge battlebags were an easy target for marauding enemy scouts

attacking a Yak 4

Leutnant der Reserve Erwin Bohme by Ivan Berryman. (GL) OPN45 2 was to fall victimDHM1682GL. Leutnant der Reserve Erwin Bohme by Ivan Berryman. Albatros C. III C. 766 16 was among the most distinctively painted aircraft of World War 1, its fuselage sides decorated with a dragon motif on the starboard side and a stylised crocodile on the other, both apparently chasing a tiny white biplane. This was the aircraft shared by Erwin Bohme and his observer, Leutnant Ladermacher while serving with Jasta 10 on the Eastern Front in August