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Nice painting, just one comment though.
These aircraft appear to to dropping paratroopers which is not something that a Lancaster would have done. The British airbourne forces used the Douglas C-47 [Dakota] or the Horsa glider which was often towed by a Short Stirling or Handley Page Halifax bomber aircraft.
However there is such a thing as artistic licence
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hopefully the artist will confirm his intentions !
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the picture is a bit confusing, but i think it is meant to portray a supply drop to the Polish Home Army during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._301_β¦
it seems surprising that one RAF squadron would operate both the Halifax and the Liberator at the same time, but those visually-similar aircraft offered different capabilities eg the Halifax could air-drop Jeeps, while the Liberator had very long range.
during these missions, the bombers were fired on both by German AAA and, according to surviving aircrew, Russian aircraft. Red Army units close to Warsaw seem to have waited for the Uprising to be crushed by the Germans, including SS units composed of criminals (by which i mean men actually recruited from prisons), before entering the city to impose a pro-Soviet administration.
the falling men might be meant to be aircrew, but as we don't see a burning aircraft in the picture we are left guessing.
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These are B-24 Liberators not Lancasters.
But still you are right, I'm not certain if the B-24 was flown in RAF livree and dropping paratroopers (at least during WW2).
But who cares?
Still an awesome painting!
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Nice artwork. Looks almost real, as if I am looking at a historical film.
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Sure you ask for this: what is the context of this masterpiece? Poland support for the polish insurrection?
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Judging by logo in bottom right corner of a picture, i assume that artist painted his vision of a map called "Poland" for computer game WarThunder
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Good you've written, I don't know the game and this vision confused me a bit.
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Lucky you! 
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Yes, especially bottom left corner
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I played this game some time ago. It was really nice and interesting, but later developers go crazy and every next update turned out to be worse than previous. So i quit.
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