High Summer by James Dietz

Limited Edition Print - Publisher Proof 500 Public Edition100 Publisher Proof Edition100 Artist Proof Edition Image Size: 13"h x 26 1/4"w Overall Size: 19 1/2"h x 32 1/4"w Hand signed and numbered by the artist James Dietz. Includes certificate of authenticity. Before the Fall, 1940 The victorious Luftwaffe stood on the English Channel, fresh, rested, and above all supremely confident. In the past year it had destroyed the Air Forces of Poland, Holland, Denmark, Norway and the combined forces of England and France over the Continent. It was true that the Kampflieger had suffered serious losses at the hands of defending French & British Fighters, but these bomber units had been quickly re-equipped. The Jadgwaffe had proved itself superior in every way: better equipped, better trained and better tactics honed in the skies over Spain in the famed Kondor Legion, just prior to the war. After the aerial battles over the British evacuation at Dunkirk, the German fighter pilots had a chanc