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Jet Attack by David Pentland. (AP)


Jet Attack by David Pentland. (AP)

Oberleutenant Schalls ME 262 of JG7 catches the Australian crewed Lancaster from 5 group dead astern as it lines up for its bombing run on the Hamburg U-Boat pens. Even at this angle the speed of the jet made it difficult to get off more than a few bursts of cannon fire before it passed through the British formation. The episode was witnessed by navigator Cecil Keys in the leading Lancaster QR/Y from 61 squadron on his last raid of the war. Lt. Schall, an ace with 117 kills, and 2nd highest jet ace of the war with 14 victories was killed the following day when his aircraft hit a bomb crater on landing at his base of Parchim. Signed by Warrant Officer Cecil Keys (deceased) and Major Erich Rudorffer (deceased)
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The Story of Jet Attack in the words of the artist, David Pentland

Early in 1995 I attended my great uncle's funeral at Lisburn, a town near Belfast. Billy had been a veteran of the Somme in 1916, and the oldest member of the local ex-servicemen association, The British Legion. His old friends gave him a good send off and afterwards over a few drinks I fell into conversation with one of the, a World War Two RAF radio operator, Cecil Keys. At that time I was intending to start a new commission related to the end of the war in Europe, to tie in with the up and coming VE Day celebrations which were to be held in May. So it was by this chance meeting that I found the subject for my next painting.

Cecil related that most of his war had involved bombing missions by night over Europe or clandestine weapons drops for the French Resistance from bases in North Africa. Towards the closing days of the war though, the RAF undertook some daylight raids and it was on Cecil's last mission of the war that he had his encounter with the deadly Messerschmitt 262. The Lancaster bomber crews felt reasopnably safe with their escort of Polish Mustangs against a broken Luftwaffe largely grounded through fuel shortages, but as the RAF lined up for their attack on the Hamburg U-boat pens, the unexpected occurred as German jets ripped into the bombers. Temporarily at a loose end Cecil took this moment to glance out the astrodome while the navigator was directing the bomb run, and it was at this moment he saw the aircraft speeding directly towards him near the tail of the bomber stream. He vividly described how the jet having slipped past the escort opened fire on the aircraft behind his, sending it into a terminal dive, while his own escaped the same fate by virtue of the fact the Me262 was travelling too fast to get in an aimed shot.

Although Cecil had provided the basic details to work on, I needed to carry out some further research to ensure the paintings' accuracy, as I'm sure most readers will agree is vital in works of this genre. Study of various accounts listed the downed Lancaster as QR/J of No.61 Sqn piloted by F/L A P Greenfield with a crew also on their last mission. Five of the crew were killed including the pilot : F/L Albert Paulton Greenfield DFC, aged 24, Fl Off William J A Gibb, aged 28, Flt Sgt William John Haddon, aged 30, Pilot Officer Victor Patrick Smith and Flt Sgt John Robert King. Two crew managed to escape the aircraft : Sgt W J A Fraser and Flt Sgt S D P Goodey, both of whom were injured and taken to hospital where they remained until the end of the war. On the German side I was able to identify the jet pilot as Oberleutnant Franz Schall, a top Luftwaffe Ace with 137 victories, and second highest jet Ace with 14 victories. Sadly Schall was killed the following day when his aircraft hit a shell hole on landing at his base at Parchim. Details of the Hamburg docks and U-boat pens came from my brother who works in the city.

The completed painting was ready for the VE Day celebrations and was used in a major newspaper feature to advertise the event.

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The signature of Major Erich Rudorffer (deceased)

Major Erich Rudorffer (deceased)
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Erich Rudorffer was born on November 1st 1917 in the town of Zwickau in Saxony. Erich Rudorffer joined the Luftwaffes I./JG2 Richthofen in November 1939, and was soon flying combat patrols in January 1940 and was assigned to I/JG 2 Richthofen with the rank of Oberfeldwebel. He took part in the Battle of France, scoring the first of his many victories over a French Hawk 75 on May 14th, 1940. He went on to score eight additional victories during the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain. Rudorffer recalled an incident in August 1940 when he escorted a badly damaged Hurricane across the Channel - ditching in the English Channel was greatly feared by pilots on both sides. As fate often does, Rudorffer found the roles reversed two weeks later, when he was escorted by an RAF fighter after receiving battle damage. By May 1st 1941 Rudorffer had achieved 19 victories, which led to the award of the Knights Cross. In June 1941 Rodorffer became an Adjutant of II./JG2. In 1942 Rudorffer participated in Operation Cerberus (known as the Channel Dash) and flew over the Allied landings at Dieppe. Erich Rudorffer along with JG2 was transferred to North Africa in December 1942. It was in North Africa that Rudorffer showed his propensity for multiple-victory sorties. He shot down eight British aircraft in 32 minutes on February 9th 1943 and seven more in 20 minutes six days later. After scoring a total of 26 victories in Tunisia, Rudorffer returned to France in April 1943 and was posted to command II./JG54 in Russia, after Hauptmann Heinrich Jung, its Kommodore, failed to return from a mission on July 30th 1943. On August 24th 1943 he shot down 5 Russian aircraft on the first mission of the day and followed that up with three more victories on the second mission. He scored seven victories in seven minutes on October 11th but his finest achievement occurred on November 6th when in the course of 17 minutes, he shot down thirteen Russian aircraft. Rudorffer became known to Russian pilots as the fighter of Libau. On October 28th 1944 while about to land, Rudorffer spotted a large formation of Il-2 Sturmoviks. He quickly aborted the landing and moved to engage the Russian aircraft. In under ten minutes, nine of the of the II-2 Sturmoviks were shot down causing the rest to disperse. Rudorffer would later that day go on and shoot down a further two Russian aircraft. These victories took his total to 113 and he was awarded the Oak Leaves on April 11th 1944. Rudorffer would on the 26th January 1945 on his 210th victory receive the addition of the Swords. In February 1945 Rudorffer took command of I./JG7 flying the Me262. He was one of the first jet fighter aces of the war, scoring 12 victories in the Me262. He shot down ten 4-engine bombers during the 'Defense of the Reich missions'. He was the master of multiple scoring - achieving more multiple victories than any other pilot. Erich Rudorffer never took leave, was shot down 16 times having to bail out 9 times, and ended the war with 222 victories from over 1000 missions. He was awarded the Knights Cross, with Oak Leaves and Swords. Erich Rudorffer died on 8th April 2016.


Warrant Officer Cecil Keys (deceased)
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Keys served as a Warrant Officer Wireless Operator during World War II. He worked primarily on Lancaster and Stirling bombers, including a period on special operations in North Africa with No.624 Squadron. Keys' crew dropped men behind enemy lines to assist resistance groups. It also dropped supplies for the units forming on the ground. Missions included Italy, France, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. No.624 Squadron disbanded on 5th September 1944. Cecil joined No.61 Squadron in March 1945 and remained in Bomber Command for the rest of the war. His last operational mission before the end of hostilities was a raid on the Hamburg U-boat pens with No.61 Squadron, as shown in the painting Jet Attack by David Pentland. It was during this mission the RAF found itself attacked by jet propelled Nazi aircraft. Some years ago Mr. Keys explained what happened during this operation :

We were flying in the usual 'gaggle' formation and the flak was heavy. I took a quick look at the situation from the Astrodome and could see our escort of Mustangs far out to starboard but something was moving very fast indeed in the opposite direction on the port side. I knew at once it was one of the jet fighters the Germans had developed and were using in the Hamburg area. Our two gunners had already seen it but we were also aware our.303 calibre guns would be no match for the 0.5 shells from the German jet. I was searching the area directly behind us for another possible dash of the enemy jet when a Lancaster, about 100 yards behind us, suddenly put its nose down in a vertical dive. The jet had come in so fast they hadn't much hope of getting a hit. We were aware we had just missed getting the chop instead of the unfortunate crew just behind us. Indeed, our bomb aimer was hit by flak. This raid on Hamburg took place around 9am in sunshine. The bombers were accompanied by American Mustangs because of their long range fuel tanks.

Cecil Watson Albert Keys died on 22nd April 2003 aged 89.
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LancasterThe Avro Lancaster arose from the avro Manchester and the first prototype Lancaster was a converted Manchester with four engines. The Lancaster was first flown in January 1941, and started operations in March 1942. By March 1945 The Royal Air Force had 56 squadrons of Lancasters with the first squadron equipped being No.44 Squadron. During World War Two the Avro Lancaster flew 156,000 sorties and dropped 618,378 tonnes of bombs between 1942 and 1945. Lancaster Bomberss took part in the devastating round-the-clock raids on Hamburg during Air Marshall Harris' "Operation Gomorrah" in July 1943. Just 35 Lancasters completed more than 100 successful operations each, and 3,249 were lost in action. The most successful survivor completed 139 operations, and the Lancaster was scrapped after the war in 1947. A few Lancasters were converted into tankers and the two tanker aircraft were joined by another converted Lancaster and were used in the Berlin Airlift, achieving 757 tanker sorties. A famous Lancaster bombing raid was the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley. The operation was carried out by 617 Squadron in modified Mk IIIs carrying special drum shaped bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. Also famous was a series of Lancaster attacks using Tallboy bombs against the German battleship Tirpitz, which first disabled and later sank the ship. The Lancaster bomber was the basis of the new Avro Lincoln bomber, initially known as the Lancaster IV and Lancaster V. (Becoming Lincoln B1 and B2 respectively.) Their Lancastrian airliner was also based on the Lancaster but was not very successful. Other developments were the Avro York and the successful Shackleton which continued in airborne early warning service up to 1992.
Me262The Messerschmitt Me-262 Swallow, a masterpiece of engineering, was the first operational mass-produced jet to see service. Prototype testing of the airframe commenced in 1941 utilizing a piston engine. General Adolf Galland, who was in charge of the German Fighter Forces at that time, pressured both Goring and Hitler to accelerate the Me-262, and stress its use as a fighter to defend Germany from Allied bombers. Hitler, however, envisioned the 262 as the aircraft which might allow him to inflict punishment on Britain. About 1400 Swallows were produced, but fortunately for the Allies, only about 300 saw combat duty. While the original plans for the 262 presumed the use of BMW jet engines, production Swallows were ultimately equipped with Jumo 004B turbojet engines. The wing design of the 262 necessitated the unique triangular hull section of the fuselage, giving the aircraft a shark-like appearance. With an 18 degree swept wing, the 262 was capable of Mach .86. The 262 was totally ineffective in a turning duel with Allied fighters, and was also vulnerable to attack during take off and landings. The landing gear was also suspect, and many 262s were destroyed or damaged due to landing gear failure. Despite its sleek jet-age appearance, the 262 was roughly manufactured, because Germany had lost access to its normal aircraft assembly plants. In spite of these drawbacks the 262 was effective. For example, on April 7, 1945 a force of sixty 262s took on a large force of Allied bombers with escort fighters. Armed with their four nose-mounted cannons, and underwing rockets the Swallows succeeded in downing or damaging 25 Allied B-17s on that single mission. While it is unlikely that the outcome of the War could have been altered by an earlier introduction or greater production totals for this aircraft, it is clear to many historians that the duration of the War might have been drastically lengthened if the Me-262 had not been too little too late.

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