Only 190 prints, signed and numbered by
artist Matt Hall & at least 6 veterans including:

- Easy Company veteran Babe Heffron
- Easy Company veteran Earl McClung
- Easy Company veteran Ed Tipper
- Checkertail P-51 pilot G.B. Edwards
- Plus 2 other distinguished signers from our list below!

ALSO INCLUDES: Color COA with
"History Behind the Art" story

All prints are sold unframed

All prints are sold unframed

ALSO INCLUDES:
- "Open Range" 8x10 photo (un-signed)
- Photos of Dick Winters and 101st Airborne troopers
in Berchtesgaden to frame with your print
- Victory in Europe campaign ribbon
- Color COA with "History Behind the Art" story

All prints are sold unframed

SOLD OUT

Only 150 prints, signed and numbered by
artist Matt Hall & at least 18 veterans.

PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- "Open Range" P-51 over the Alps 8x10 photo
signed by Checkertail ACE Art Fiedler!
- Photos of Dick Winters and 101st Airborne troopers
in Berchtesgaden to frame with your print
- Victory in Europe campaign ribbon
- Color COA with "History Behind the Art" story

All prints are sold unframed

In 2008 Valor Studios brought Easy Company veterans Earl McClung and Don Malarkey back to Berchtesgaden, Germany, the Alpine town where they learned the war in Europe was over.

As we drove around Berchtesagen, we were struck by the majestic beauty of the alps that towered over us and the thought that some sixty-three years earlier, the two men sitting next to us probably drove the same road we were on, in their Jeeps. So we asked them.

"Of course we did!" they both answered. Don recalled that even when Easy Company was in Austria they "still did a lot of sight seeing in Berchtesgaden." After all, as Don pointed out, the town was the site of Hitler's Eagle's Nest and his home, the Berghof. Plus, there was a beautiful alpine lake there with great fishing.

Earl added that the Air Corps loved to tour the town too - only from above. "There were always fighters buzzing around us," he said. "Hell, you should do a print of that!"

We loved the idea. It may have taken four years, but we finally followed Earl's suggestion. Studying Matt Hall's scene does raise one big question: Why are these paratroopers racing to Berchtesgaden? Are they heading there to visit the Eagle's Nest? Maybe the remains of the Berghof or Herman Goering's home?

Are they on their way to do some souvenir hunting or to liberate some bottles of wine from the homes of the former Nazi leadership?

Or could they be en route to the very celebration depicted in our print "The Eagle's Nest" by John D. Shaw?

Matt hid a few clues in "Victory Salute" to help you answer this question. We encourage you to add this beautiful print to your collection, study the details, and the answer will present itself.

Joe Drago
326th Glider
Infantry

Now acknowledged as the rising talent in military art, Matt Hall worked for years under master visionary, Steven Spielberg, at Spielberg’s DreamWorks company! These days, however, Matt no longer paints to serve the icons of Hollywood—he paints to pay tribute to America’s military heroes.

Matt’s artistic training began as a boy in Missouri, when he met an old-time western artist named Bob Tommy, who just moved from Texas. Tommy encouraged Matt to try his hand at painting. When Tommy saw Matt’s “natural talent,” he became Matt’s mentor and taught him the technique he had amassed in his lifetime of work.

In college, Matt studied painting. After graduation, he broadened his skills, painting everything from greeting cards to animation backgrounds. His career changed forever when Spielberg’s DreamWorks company found and hired him. Matt brought and his new bride, Michele, a Texas small-town girl, with him to Hollywood.

At DreamWorks, Matt rose through the ranks, painting concept art. When Steven Spielberg had an idea brewing about the Battle for Iwo Jima,