Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. SIG474 Unsigned edition

Unsigned edition

During his wartime flying

Richard Taylors painting recreates an encounter on 19th February 1945

troop carrier and glider-tug

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. SIG474 Unsigned editionDHM1813. Hansa Brandenburg W. 12 Attack on the C. 17 by Ivan Berryman. On the morning of 21st April 1917, coastal airship No C. 17 was on a routine patrol captained by Sub Lieutenant E G O Jackson, when sometime around 8. 00am, she was attacked by German seaplanes and shot down. Such was their vulnerability that these huge battlebags were an easy target for marauding enemy scouts, their single Lewis guns achieving little by way of defence. The Hansa