First Combat by David Pentland. (B) SIG1658 Paper size 26 inches x

Paper size 26 inches x 21 inches (66cm x 53cm)

Signed limited edition of 1050 prints

The role of the support brigade is to receive both troops and equipment into theatre and organise their onward movement

resulting in a forced landing behind enemy lines

First Combat by David Pentland. (B) SIG1658 Paper size 26 inches xDP0169B. First Combat by David Pentland. Franco German border, 22md November 1939. While flying a routine border Frei Jagd for some reconnaissance Dorniers, eight Me109s of 3. JG2 were engaged by fourteen French Curtiss Hawks of GC II 4. During the ensuing dogfight, the first combat for the Richthofen Geschwader since WW1, two of the French fighters were shot down. The first by Lt Helmut Wick, was flown by the French ace Adjutant Camille Plubeau (14