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08 - WWII - Pacific & Asia
Flight Out Of Hell by Nicolas Trudgian
After three days of continual pounding, the heavily defended Japanese staging base at Kavieng was all but devastated. In the final assault on February 15, 1944, a force of B-24s, B-25s and A-20s hammered through a wall of enemy flak between the airfield and the coastline, demolishing everything in their path, but not without cost.
Several aircraft were hit by the intense gunfire and by flying debris as fuel dumps exploded, and a number of crews were forced to ditch within clear sight of shore batteries. Three downed B-25 crews from 345th Bomb Group were floating helplessly in life-rafts within a thousand yards of the beach, and with Japanese troops in no mood to take prisoners, they knew their only chance of survival was the air-sea rescue PBY Catalina.
This print is individually autographed by:
Lieutenant Commander NATHAN GORDON
Colonel WILLIAM J. CAVIOLI
AMM2/c JOHN BRATELY
Captain ROBERT E. LEWIS
Print size: 33 1/4"w X 23 1/2"h
Limited edition of: 600 signed and numbered with 60 Artist Proofs
