"Operations On"

by Philip E West


Edition size: 300


Overall size of prints 28" x 12½"


Signed by the artist, a pilot and two other aircrew.



The evening mist begins to settle on the bleak airfield at Ludford Magna, Lincolnshire, as Lancaster aircraft of 101 Squadron taxi out for another dangerous nighttime sortie. The nature of their assignments during the war was a closely guarded secret. The unusual aerials on the front and top of the aircraft were used for intercepting and jamming messages between German fighter aircraft and their ground control.