Aviation Print ‘They Landed by Moonlight’ by Robert Taylor

Limited Edition 93/750 ‘They Landed by Moonlight’ by Robert Taylor. To fly a small aircraft at the dead of night, without radio communication or navigational assistance, deep into enemy occupied territory, was an extremely perilous task. Most suited aircraft to these World War 2 clandestine operations of the RAF’s Special Duties Squadrons was the rugged Westland Lysander. Robert Taylor captures to perfection the secret world of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) pilot with his atmospheric painting. Packed with tension, he recreates the high drama of a typical rendezvous as a pilot from No.161 Squadron based at Tangmere, readies his aircraft for take-off in a remote field deep inside enemy occupied France. Clutching a Luger in one hand, he completes pre-takeoff checks as three passengers (Joes) are spirited away by an armed member of the French Resistance. It is July 1943. Read more below.