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by Marc Stewart
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Purchase a tote bag featuring the painting "Mehitabel" by Marc Stewart. Our tote bags are made from soft, durable, poly-poplin fabric and include a 1" black strap for easy carrying on your shoulder. All seams are double-stitched for added durability. Each tote bag is machine-washable in cold water and is printed on both sides using the same image.
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Mehitabel, a B-17E of the 8th Air Force goes down after a raid on the Nazi sub pens on the coast of France.
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Average Rating (4.85 Stars):
Susan Miller
April 12th, 2024
Quite beautiful!
Lorraine Amer
April 9th, 2024
Have not received my Can’t send photo…. Have not received my purchase
Angel May
April 2nd, 2024
I sent it as a gift and she loves it. I have some of his original pieces. They take me away.
Nancy Rice
March 29th, 2024
This tote bag is gorgeous! I saw a picture of it and had to have it. The colors are just beautiful. The size is better than I expected, because it's larger than I had envisioned it. It is practical and functional as well as beautiful. I'm very happy with this purchase.
Pam Garski
March 29th, 2024
Pixels did an amazing job of taking a picture I created and transferring it to fabric. I’m very impressed with the quality of the prints and the bag. Thank you.
Jacki Sanoja
March 23rd, 2024
I love this bag so much! It is well made; the image is sharp and the colors rich.
Mehitabel, a B-17E of the 8th Air Force goes down after a raid on the Nazi sub pens on the coast of France.
Recipient of the 2008 R. G. Smith Award for Excellence in Naval Aviation Art. Presented by the National Museum of Naval Aviation Foundation. Marc Stewart is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, currently residing in Newnan, Georgia. He has always had an interest in flying and of aircraft (WWII aircraft in particular). As a teenager he earned his pilots license. He and his friends flew all over the U.S. and Canada in a Cessna 120, and through the ignorance of youth (mixed with a lot of luck) narrowly averted death many times! They would often get two aircraft and "dogfight" each other or put on "airshows" for their friends -- including one stunt flight through an expressway underpass. In college Marc became involved in...
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Dana Copeland
I'm the son of the pilot of this B17. It's actually a B17F. Only about 500 Es were produced. A few were flown by the Royal air force early in the war. The 8th air force flew F models early and G models later in the war. The events portrayed in this painting took place on June 28th, 1943. The plane was on a mission to bomb submarine pens in St. Nazaire. Flak damaged the middle of the plane, severing controls to tail elevators. Trying to maintain speed in formation without elevators caused the B17 to climb into a loop. Reduced speed to maintain level flight caused the plane to fall out of formation. Fighters attacked. Careful research identified the fighter groups that were scrambled that day. Both the ME-109 and Focke Wulf 190 marking are correct to the Luftwaffe units scrambled. The B17 marking are correct to the 351st BG (H), 510th squadron. Two engines were taken out by fighters and three gunners (both waist and ball turret) were killed in the air battle. The plane salvoed bombs over open water, and headed for the nearest land believing the chances of survival were greater on land than water. The plane made it to Belle Isle, a small island off the south Brittany coast. The seven parachutes are the seven crewmen who survived the air battle. There were approximately 8000 German infantry on the island - it was part of the Atlantic wall. They were taken prisoner and survived 22 months in German POW camps. The French citizens recovered the bodies of the three airmen killed in the air battle. After the war the bodies of the two waist gunners: Frank Hanan and Edward Tuminski were returned to the United States. The ball turret gunner: Merwyn Ranum is buried at the Normandy American Cemetery: Plot C, Row 26, Grave 9. In gratitude for the American role in the liberation of France the citizens of Belle Ile erected a monument near the site of the plane crash to the three airmen who died.