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by John D. Shaw
June 5, 1944, at Uppottery
Airfield, England . . .
Gilded in the evening’s glow, Lt. Richard Winters confers with his “Band
of Brothers,” the paratroopers of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry
Regiment, 101st Airborne. Soon, these young men would parachute into German-occupied
France, to spearhead Europe’s emancipation. Winters holds a letter from
regimental commander Col. Robert Sink, that states, “Tonight is the
Night of Nights. Tomorrow throughout the whole of our homeland and the Allied
world the bells will ring out the tidings that you have arrived, and the invasion
for liberation has begun.”
MAIN
EDITION:
850 copies
bearing 8 to 13 signatures:--
SOLD OUT-- click
here for secondary market availability
(PA
residents please add 6% sales tax)
Autographed by a combination of the following Easy Company D-Day veterans:
Sal Bellino, Maxwell Clark, Buck Compton, "Wild Bill" Guarnere,
Forrest Guth, Ed Joint, Paul Lamoureux, Joe Lesniewski, Clancy Lyall,
Don Malarkey, Earl McClung, Ed Shames, Rod Strohl.
GALLERY EDITION: SOLD OUT
ARTIST'S
PROOF: SOLD OUT-- contact
us for secondary market availability
101 copies - Prints include the extremely
rare original signature of Easy Company’s wartime company commander,
Dick Winters, along with the autographs
of 14 other Easy Company D-Day veterans including: Sal Bellino, Maxwell
Clark, Buck Compton, "Wild Bill" Guarnere, Forrest Guth, Ed
Joint, Paul Lamoureux,
Joe Lesniewski, Clancy Lyall, Don Malarkey, Earl McClung, Ed Shames, and
Rod Strohl.
PUBLISHER
PROOFS: SOLD OUT-- contact
us for secondary market availability
101
copies - Prints include the extremely rare original autograph
of Easy Company’s wartime company commander, Dick Winters, along
with the autographs
of Easy Company D-Day veterans including: Sal Bellino, Maxwell Clark,
Buck Compton, "Wild Bill" Guarnere, Forrest Guth, Ed Joint,
Paul Lamoureux, Joe Lesniewski, Clancy Lyall, Don Malarkey, Earl McClung,
Ed Shames, and Rod Strohl.
__We’re
excited to announce the completion of one of the most anticipated military
art prints ever published…We Were a Band of Brothers by John D. Shaw,
depicting the famed men of Easy Company preparing for the fateful jump into
Normandy on the ‘night of nights’.
__ After nearly 2 years in the planning and
creation, Ghost Wings and Liberty Studios have had the honor of having
the participation of over 14 original veterans of Easy Company in personally
signing these lithographs.
__ Each of these distinguished ‘Band of
Brothers’ participated in the D-Day jump on June 6, 1944, and continued
on to make military history, immortalized in Steven Ambrose’s bestseller
and the award-winning HBO miniseries. This stunning and historically accurate
portrayal is available in several editions, all bearing numerous multiple
original
__ We are grateful not only for your interest in this project, but are especially thankful to the wonderful gentlemen of Easy Company who graciously gave of their time and toil to support our efforts to preserve history through Ghost Wings magazine. Also thanks to Easy Company historian Jake Powers for his historical advisement during the production of this print.
John Shaw has been commissioned to do paintings for prestigious sources such as the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air National Guard, and by some of the world's premier aviation art collectors.
His artwork has adorned the covers of national magazines, from Private Pilot's Aviation Art Gallery, to Challenge Publications' Aviation Art, to Primedia's World War II and Aviation History.
John Shaw's previous works command hefty secondary market value; in addition to Black Sheep Squadron and Hornet's Nest, Red Tail Angels and By The Dawn's Early Light now trade for over $1,000 each.
