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 The Hard Way Home by Robert Taylor - Halifax and Hurricane
The Hard Way Home 
by Robert Taylor 


It is late summer 1941, and as the early morning sun casts its golden glow across the shimmering sea below, it reveals a lone Halifax of 405 (Vancouver) Squadron RCAF that has struggled home the hard way – damaged and alone. Hit by flak over the target, one of the aircraft’s engines is already out and another is smoking badly as the exhausted pilot and his crew fight to keep the unwieldy bomber airborne. Any marauding Luftwaffe fighters would have found them easy prey, but fortunately for this crew they have been spotted by a formation of Hurricanes from 253 Squadron out on routine patrol. For that final, weary leg of their long journey home the Halifax crew will at last have protection to see them safely back to base.


23¼" x 35¼"

Available in the following editions

400 Limited edition   Signed by two Hurricane pilots and two Halifax aircrew. $320
250 RCAF edition Signed by two RCAF Hurricane pilots and five RCAF Halifax aircrew. $375
25  RCAF Artist's proof  Signed by two RCAF Hurricane pilots and five RCAF Halifax aircrew. $520
250 Collectors edition  Signed by six Hurricane pilots and fifteen Halifax aircrew. $495
25  Artist's proof   Signed by six Hurricane pilots and fifteen Halifax aircrew. $595




Limited edition signatures:
Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC Warrant Officer Laurie Godfrey
Warrant Officer Eric Carter Lieutenant Stanislaw Nawarski DFC KM


RCAF edition signatures:
Wing Commander J.F.‘Stocky’ Edwards DFC* DFM Lieutenant Colonel Douglas ‘Duke’ Warren DFC CD RCAF
Squadron Leader Ian Hewitt DFC Warrant Officer Reg Cleaver
Flying Officer Edward Bowles Warrant Officer Richard Curnock
Flight Lt Henry Oakeby  


Collectors edition & Artist's proof signatures:
Warrant Officer Harry Irons DFC Warrant Officer Laurie Godfrey
Warrant Officer Eric Carter Lieutenant Stanislaw Nawarski DFC KM
Flying Officer Tom Sayer DFM Squadron Leader Frank Williamson AFC
Flight Lieutenant “Bluey” Mottershead DFC Warrant Officer John Morrison
Flying Officer Frank Walker Flying Officer Len McNamara DFC 
Warrant Officer Fred Maltas Warrant Officer Harry Gough
Flying Officer John Evans Warrant Officer Sam Thompson
Flight Lieutenant Matt Holiday DFC Warrant Officer William Bell
Flight Lieutenant Kurt Taussig Wing Commander John ‘Tim’ Elkington
Wing Commander Tom Neil DFC AFC AE Pilot Officer Stefan Ryll
Warrant Officer Reg Cleaver  


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