The Battle for Villers-Bocage, Normandy 1944

The Battle for Villers-Bocage | PDF | 56 Pages | 16 Megabytes Battle for Villers-Bocage (Right click to save) When the British landed in Normandy on D-Day, they had one main objective: seize the key city of Caen from where William the conqueror had sailed for England nine centuries ago. Capturing Caen would give the [...]

Uncategorized Drawings

The Bathyscaphe TriesteThe deep sea submarine was designed by the Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard. On 23 January 1960 Jacques Piccard (on far side, Auguste’s son) and U.S. Navy Lt. Don Walsh, used it to explore the Marianas trench and the Challenger Deep, where they noted that small flounder and other marine animals existed, proving that [...]

Aviation Art 1

Major Gunther Rall attacked by American P-47 Thunderbolts A veteran of the Eastern Front, Gunther Rall was moved west in 1944 to face Anglo-American airpower. On 12 May, a flight of three Thunderbolts jumped his Me109 as he flew a patrol over Germany. In a dazzling display of aerobatics, he shot down two, including the [...]

The Battle for Malta 1940-1942

The Story of Malta | PDF | 40 Pages | 6 megabytes A British Imperial island during the Second World War, Malta occupied a place in the narrows of the Mediterranean and was thus in an ideal position to interdict Axis shipping. It was a rocky aircraft carrier from which the British could launch attacks [...]

Architecture

I drew these in 2011 because I hadn’t drawn anything in a few years and thought that I should, in part because I needed to fill this then-fledgling site and in part because I knew I would be rusty. Be aware that these, like most of my drawings, are drawn freehand without guides. The Tholos [...]