Panzers In Berlin
by
Paul Renwick Farley
The print depicts the last elements of Germany's finest gathering for the final battle - the Panther medium tank, arguably the best tank in it's day, the formidable "King" Tiger, the redoubtable Pak 88mm, and wheeling overhead the war's ultimate fighter aircraft - the Me-262. In an almost surreal touch the Brandenburg Gate frames this scene, like the proscnium arch to a Wagnerian Opera it will bear silent witness to the coming Gotterdammerung.
The artist has captured the very essence of the Mk V Panther tank. Shown here is the late model Ausf G Panther, the most advanced tank design of its day; this one has been enhanced with the experimental FG 1250 infra-red night vision sight. Panther 122 belonging to Panzer Division 29 Muencheberg would be pitted against much superior Russian forces of Marshal Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front in its final assault on Berlin across the river Oder at the Seelow heights a month later in mid April.
The King Tigers of SS schwere Panzer-Abteilung 503 and the Pak 88s both veterans of the Eastern campaign and finally the retreat before the Russian juggernaut would make their last stand in front of the Reichstag, and in the first week of May, fire the last shots in anger in Berlin. Above the lifting ground fog a schwarm of Me-262's of JG-7 shatters the morning quiet as they head out to meet yet another raid by the heavies of the US Army Air Force.

Edition Size: 650 S/N, 65 Artists Proofs and 30 Remarques
Image Size: 29" X 20 1/2"
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