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From Sabretooth by Rupert Matthews, published in 2003. Illustrated by Maureen and Gordon Gray, James Field, and Darren Lingard.

.It is a scene that could have been played out on a dozen airfields in East Anglia uring ‘Big Week’ in early 1944; a badly damaged B-17F, mauled by enemy fighters, has battled its way home. A bomber from the 91st Bomb Group that’s run into trouble this time, yet somehow, with gritty determination and super-human effort, they’ve made it back to Bassingbourn. But, with power finally failing on all four engines, it takes the crew one final effort to land their crippled warbird. Fortunately they’ve made it one piece and help is quickly on hand. With the rest of their colleagues now on final approach, for the first time in hours the exhausted but relieved crew can savour the moment. They have survived.

Running up the Solent is RMS Mauritania in full anti-submarine “dazzle” camouflage. Flying above is a Felixstowe F2A similarly camouflaged for sea landings, on its way to RAF Calshot airbase.

The fabulous Ishtar Gate in Babylon around the time of Nebuchadnezzar II in the early part of the sixth century BC. The king in his war chariot heads out of the city down the  Processional Way. The blue, lapis-lazuli glazed bricks would have shone out from the mundane mud bricks that most of the city would have been made from. The Gate was further decorated with alternating rows of dragons and aurochs while the Processional way was lined with lions.

From Sabretooth by Rupert Matthews, published in 2003. Illustrated by Maureen and Gordon Gray, James Field, and Darren Lingard.

From Sabretooth by Rupert Matthews, published in 2003. Illustrated by Maureen and Gordon Gray, James Field, and Darren Lingard.