Limited Edition: 200 copies
Overall size: 24” x 30”
Image: 19.5” x 25”
Support: Epson UltraSmooth Fine Art heavyweight archival paper
Color: Epson 8-color UltraChrome K-3 pigment-based inks
Each copy signed, numbered, annotated, color profiled and printed by the artist
Price: $195 + S&H $14 U.S. / $45 International
Original Oil Painting
Copyright Date: 1995
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THE OLD MAN'S ORDEAL
On 8 March
1943, on a long-range photo-recon mission over Gasmata airstrip
on New Britain, a Sixty-fifth Bomb Squadron, Forty-third Bomb
Group B-17, the Old Man was jumped by 13 Zeros and a battle
was on. One Zero pilot shot several bursts into the nose of
the aircraft, wounding the pilot Melville “Dutch”
Ehlers. Bombardier Thomas Lloyd “Breezy” Boren
released four 500-pound bombs and the long-range bomb-bay
auxiliary fuel tank to lighten the craft as they frantically
clawed to gain airspeed. They limped back to the Dobudura
airfield complex, Papua New Guinea, and the crew (also including
copilot Joseph Cochran, navigator Warren Bryant engineer Madison,
gunner Echols, radioman Boly, ball-gunner Andrade, and tail-gunner
Ferriola), was credited with five aircraft destroyed. |
