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Road to the Rhine by Robert Taylor. (B) - Military Art

Road to the Rhine by Robert Taylor. (B)


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Road to the Rhine by Robert Taylor. (B)

As the Allied armies dashed across France after victory in Normandy, they remained reliant on one thing - supplies. With Cherbourg the only port in use, everything depended on trucks to deliver enough fuel, food and ammunition to keep the momentum going. But there was a problem. Too few trucks, and too few drivers. The invasion was in danger of stalling, and if it did, the Germans might just regain the initiative. Action was needed, and quickly. Montgomery argued that all resources be channeled into a single, powerful thrust into Germany, but Eisenhower disagreed. the Allies would advance on a broad front. But he did give Montgomery the First Allied Airborne Army to try and capture the major bridges in Holland on the road to the Rhine, ahead of the Allies advance. For the men of the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles, their task was to seize the bridges at Eindhoven. The 82nd would do the same at Nijmegan, and the British 1st Airborne would capture the farthest bridge, at Arnhem. On the ground the British 30th Corps would advance northwards and link up with them, and, if successful, turn the German flank on the Rhine. On 17th September 1944 the plan was put into action, the 101st quickly securing all of its objectives, and the 82nd capturing one bridge. The British 1st Airborne fought its way into Arnhem and seized the bridge over the Rhine. Now all they had to do was hold out until the 30th Corps arrived. But 30th Corps was making slow progress, and although the men of the 101st and the 82nd held out until relieved, in Arnhem it was too late to save the British 1st Airborne. Battle-weary, without ammunition or supplies, only a few survivors escaped back across the Rhine. Of the 10,000 men who had landed, just 2,000 made it out. If the operation had succeeded the war in Europe might have been over by Christmas 1944. Instead, hostilities would continue through the bitter winter.
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Item Code : DHM1841BRoad to the Rhine by Robert Taylor. (B) - This Edition
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PRINTCollectors edition of 350 prints


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Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) Shames, Ed (signed in person)
True, William (signed in person)
Wingett, Bill (signed in person)
Joint, Ed (signed in person)
Tipper, Ed (signed in person)
Koskimaki, George (signed in person)
Hallow, Ed (signed in person)
Burgett, Don (signed in person)
Maynard, Bill (signed in person)
Suerth, Herb (signed in person)
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


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Other editions of this item : Road to the Rhine by Robert Taylor.DHM1841
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PRINTLimited edition of 450 prints. Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) Tipper, Ed (signed in person)
Maynard, Bill (signed in person)
Suerth, Herb (signed in person)
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £115
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101st Airborne edition of 225 artist proofs

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Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) Shames, Ed (signed in person)
True, William (signed in person)
Wingett, Bill (signed in person)
Soboleski, Frank (companion print)
Taylor, Amos Buck (companion print)
Rogers, Paul (companion print)
Joint, Ed (signed in person)
Tipper, Ed (signed in person)
Zimmermann, Hank (companion print)
Koskimaki, George (signed in person)
Hallow, Ed (signed in person)
Burgett, Don (signed in person)
Bain, Rod (companion print)
Peruginni, Phil (signed in person)
McClung, Earl (companion print)
Martin, James (companion print)
Vicari, Vinnie (companion print)
Lyall, Clancy (companion print)
Perconte, Frank (companion print)
Maynard, Bill (signed in person)
Suerth, Herb (signed in person)
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £615
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PRINT101st Airborne edition of 125 prints

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Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) Shames, Ed (signed in person)
True, William (signed in person)
Wingett, Bill (signed in person)
Soboleski, Frank (companion print)
Taylor, Amos Buck (companion print)
Rogers, Paul (companion print)
Joint, Ed (signed in person)
Tipper, Ed (signed in person)
Zimmermann, Hank (companion print)
Koskimaki, George (signed in person)
Hallow, Ed (signed in person)
Burgett, Don (signed in person)
Bain, Rod (companion print)
Peruginni, Phil (signed in person)
McClung, Earl (companion print)
Martin, James (companion print)
Vicari, Vinnie (companion print)
Lyall, Clancy (companion print)
Perconte, Frank (companion print)
Maynard, Bill (signed in person)
Suerth, Herb (signed in person)
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £615
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REMARQUECollectors remarque edition of 10 prints

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Paper size 33.5 inches x 25 inches (85cm x 61cm) Image size 27 inches x 17.5 inches (69cm x 44cm) Shames, Ed (signed in person)
True, William (signed in person)
Wingett, Bill (signed in person)
Joint, Ed (signed in person)
Tipper, Ed (signed in person)
Koskimaki, George (signed in person)
Hallow, Ed (signed in person)
Burgett, Don (signed in person)
Peruginni, Phil (signed in person)
Maynard, Bill (signed in person)
Suerth, Herb (signed in person)
+ Artist : Robert Taylor


Signature(s) value alone : £405
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Extra Details : Road to the Rhine by Robert Taylor. (B)
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Signatures on this item
*The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare.
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The signature of Colonel Ed Shames (deceased)

Colonel Ed Shames (deceased)
*Signature Value : £40

Enlisting in September 1942, Ed Shames was to become one of the most respected officers in the 101st Airborne Division, a stickler for detail he always got the job done, and brought his men home. Originally assigned to I Company in the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment he was then transferred to Headquarters Company. He received a battlefield commission during the taking of Carentan in Normandy, and joined Easy Company in July 1944 as a 2nd Lieutenant prior to Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. He died aged 99 on 3rd December 2021.


The signature of Corporal Herb Jr Suerth (deceased)

Corporal Herb Jr Suerth (deceased)
*Signature Value : £35

18 year old Herb Suerth enlisted as a volunteer for the Reserve Engineer Corps on 11th November 1942, but after a change of heart in 1944 he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division, beginning parachute school training in August that year. After final combat training in Holland, Herb was trucked into Bastogne in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, also fighting in Foy. On 9th January 1945 Herb was wounded by artillery fire and his legs were severely injured but ultimately saved. He was shipped out of England and back to the US on 8th April 1945. He died on 14th October 2017.
Operations Sergeant Ed Hallow
*Signature Value : £35

A Company, 101st Airborne


Private 1st Class Bill Maynard
*Signature Value : £40

Born in 1923, Bill Maynard enlisted into the 101st Airborne Division in 1942, completing his training with Easy Company at camp in Toccoa, Georgia. Posted to Europe, Bill completed his combat training prior to D-Day, and jumped with the rest of Easy Company into Normandy on D-Day itself. He was wounded in heavy fighting shortly afterwards, receiving the Purple Heart, but continued to fight on. An experienced marksman with pistol, rifle and machine-gun, he fought with Easy Company throughout Normandy, into Holland, at Bastogne, and into southern Germany at the end of the war.


Private 1st Class Bill Wingett (deceased)
*Signature Value : £45

Bill Wingett originally enlisted on 9th December 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor was attacked, but after a car crash, hospitalisation and subsequent discharge from the forces meant he had to try again on 19th August 1942. Bill was a machine gunner with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne up until 5 days before D-Day where he was transferred to Headquarters Company. He fought in the campaigns of Normandy, Holland and Bastogne receiving a Purple Heart in each. Discharged on 23rd November 1945, Bill returned 10 months later to join the 82nd Airborne for 3 years as a maintenance man at Fort Bragg Airfield. He died on 1st October 2020 aged 98.


Private Ed Joint
*Signature Value : £40

101st airborne division, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment. We were sent out to take a machine gun position. It was just before the battle of Foy ended. I was running up a hill and got hit by shrapnel in my right arm. I went flying up in the air, I didn't know at first what hit me. Somebody hollered for a medic. They put me on a stretcher and took me to a field hospital. They couldn't do nothing with it there, so they took me back and put me in a hospital in Paris. A medic said, You can go home now soldier, you ain't going to fight no more. But twenty days later I hitchhiked back to Company E to find them. They were just getting ready to go to Germany. What made me want to go back and fight? I don't know. They were my outfit, my friends.
S/ Sgt George Koskimaki
*Signature Value : £35

101st Signal Company


Sergant Ed Tipper (deceased)
*Signature Value : £40

Ed Tipper volunteered for the paratroopers and was assigned to Easy Company, 101st Airborne. He made his first jump into Normandy on D-Day. Fighting in Carentan, he was hit by a mortar shell and badly injured. His right eye was damaged, and later removed completely, while both his legs were broken. He was first sent to England then repatriated to the United States. When I came out of the Army I walked with a cane and wore an eye patch. The thing I remember most was the tremendous response of everybody I met to do everything they could do to show support for the military. Maybe the support felt exaggerated to me because I had clearly been shot up and wounded. Whenever I ate at a restaurant I went to the cashier and there was almost never a bill. Or the waitress nodded her head and said, 'A gentleman over at that table has paid.' Of course I was home a year ahead of everybody else. But that sort of thing happened to me a lot. He died on 1st February 2017.


Sergeant Don Burgett
*Signature Value : £40

A Company, 101st Airborne.Donald 'Don' R. Burgett was born on April 5, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan. On his 18th birthday, on April 5th, 1943 Donald joined the paratroopers enlisting in Detroit, Michigan. They sent Donald Burgett to Fort Riley, Kansas in order to join the last Unit of the Horse Cavalry still running. He thus did his basic training with the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Horse Cavalry. When he ended his basic training, he was transferred to the Army Paratroops at Fort Benning where he got his parachute training. On February 5, 1944, he left the United States. He travelled through Ireland and Scotland before arriving in England. He joined the 101st Airborne in Aldbourne, England in February 1944. On June 6th at 1:14 a.m. nearby Ravenoville Donald Burgett was the 6th to jump. Their main mission was to capture and hold 4 exits of the beaches of Utah Beach. The gathered troop under the command of platoon leader, 2nd Lt Bill Muir with some other men and with some of the 82nd Airborne, attacked and freed Ravenoville, the first village of Europe of WWII to be re occupied. The 82nd Airborne occupied Ste Mere Eglise, the first city being released in Normandy during the night of June 6, 1944. Burgett was wounded twice, on June 13, 44, while attacking with his bayonet in southern Carentan while attacking positions held by the 17th SS and 6th German Paratroopers. Burgett woudl go onto fight in other battles, Arnhem, Bastogne and Rhine Crossing. Donald Burgett is the author of a number of books which are: The Road to Arnhem about Holland, Seven roads to Hell about Bastogne and Beyond the Rhine about Germany. A great insight


The signature of Sergeant William True (deceased)

Sergeant William True (deceased)
*Signature Value : £40

Bill True served with the 506th Parachute Regiment which was attached to the 101st Airborne. He took part in the initial parachute drop into France with the 101st on D-Day, and by the end of the day they were in control of the high ground overlooking the invasion beach. Bill made his second combat drop with the 101st near Eindhoven during Operation Market Garden, before, in December 1944, finding himself in the thick of the action defending the town of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, where the 506th defended the eastern perimeter section of the town. Advancing into Germany, the 506th's final mission of the war was the capture of Hitler's Eagle Nest at Berchtesgaden on 4th - 5th May 1945. He died on 20th March 2017.
The Aircraft :
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DakotaDOUGLAS DAKOTA, Transport aircraft with three crew and can carry 28 passengers. speed 230-mph, and a altitude of 23,200 feet. maximum range 2,100 miles. The Douglas Dakota served in all theatres of world war two, The Royal Air Force received its first Douglas Dakota's in April 1941, to 31 squadron which was serving in India. These were DC2, later DC3 and eventually C-47 Dakotas were supplied. The Douglas Dakota was developed from the civil airliner of the 1930's. The Royal Air Force received nearly 2,000 Dakotas, But many more than this served in the US Air Force and other allied countries. The last flight of a Douglas Dakota of the Royal Air Force was in 1970. You can still see Douglas Dakota's in operational and transport use across the world.
Artist Details : Robert Taylor
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Robert Taylor

The name Robert Taylor has been synonymous with aviation art over a quarter of a century. His paintings of aircraft, more than those of any other artist, have helped popularise a genre which at the start of this remarkable artist's career had little recognition in the world of fine art. When he burst upon the scene in the mid-1970s his vibrant, expansive approach to the subject was a revelation. His paintings immediately caught the imagination of enthusiasts and collectors alike . He became an instant success. As a boy, Robert seemed always to have a pencil in his hand. Aware of his natural gift from an early age, he never considered a career beyond art, and with unwavering focus, set out to achieve his goal. Leaving school at fifteen, he has never worked outside the world of art. After two years at the Bath School of Art he landed a job as an apprentice picture framer with an art gallery in Bath, the city where Robert has lived and worked all his life. Already competent with water-colours the young apprentice took every opportunity to study the works of other artists and, after trying his hand at oils, quickly determined he could paint to the same standard as much of the art it was his job to frame. Soon the gallery was selling his paintings, and the owner, recognising Roberts talent, promoted him to the busy picture-restoring department. Here, he repaired and restored all manner of paintings and drawings, the expertise he developed becoming the foundation of his career as a professional artist. Picture restoration is an exacting skill, requiring the ability to emulate the techniques of other painters so as to render the damaged area of the work undetectable. After a decade of diligent application, Robert became one of the most capable picture restorers outside London. Today he attributes his versatility to the years he spent painstakingly working on the paintings of others artists. After fifteen years at the gallery, by chance he was introduced to Pat Barnard, whose military publishing business happened also to be located in the city of Bath. When offered the chance to become a full-time painter, Robert leapt at the opportunity. Within a few months of becoming a professional artist, he saw his first works in print. Roberts early career was devoted to maritime paintings, and he achieved early success with his prints of naval subjects, one of his admirers being Lord Louis Mountbatten. He exhibited successfully at the Royal Society of Marine Artists in London and soon his popularity attracted the attention of the media. Following a major feature on his work in a leading national daily newspaper he was invited to appear in a BBC Television programme. This led to a string of commissions for the Fleet Air Arm Museum who, understandably, wanted aircraft in their maritime paintings. It was the start of Roberts career as an aviation artist. Fascinated since childhood by the big, powerful machines that man has invented, switching from one type of hardware to another has never troubled him. Being an artist of the old school, Robert tackled the subject of painting aircraft with the same gusto as with his large, action-packed maritime pictures - big compositions supported by powerful and dramatic skies, painted on large canvases. It was a formula new to the aviation art genre, at the time not used to such sweeping canvases, but one that came naturally to an artist whose approach appeared to have origins in an earlier classical period. Roberts aviation paintings are instantly recognisable. He somehow manages to convey all the technical detail of aviation in a traditional and painterly style, reminiscent of the Old Masters. With uncanny ability, he is able to recreate scenes from the past with a carefully rehearsed realism that few other artists ever manage to achieve. This is partly due to his prodigious research but also his attention to detail: Not for him shiny new factory-fresh aircraft looking like museum specimens. His trade mark, flying machines that are battle-scarred, worse for wear, with dings down the fuselage, chips and dents along the leading edges of wings, oil stains trailing from engine cowlings, paintwork faded with dust and grime; his planes are real! Roberts aviation works have drawn crowds in the international arena since the early 1980s. He has exhibited throughout the US and Canada, Australia, Japan and in Europe. His one-man exhibition at the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC was hailed as the most popular art exhibition ever held there. His paintings hang in many of the worlds great aviation museums, adorn boardrooms, offices and homes, and his limited edition prints are avidly collected all around the world. A family man with strong Christian values, Robert devotes most of what little spare time he has to his home life. Married to Mary for thirty five years, they have five children, all now grown up. Neither fame nor fortune has turned his head. He is the same easy-going, gentle character he was when setting out on his painting career all those years ago, but now with a confidence that comes with the knowledge that he has mastered his profession.

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