MIDWAY - STRIKE AGAINST THE AKAGI
(Signatures)	Artist : Robert Taylor and 6 Battle of Midway Veterans : Lieutenant Commander DICK BEST , Captain ROBERT ELDER , Major General MARION CARL , Commander BILL ESDERS , Captain SCOTT MCCUSKEY and Captain JACK REID.
(Dimensions)	23" x 20" approx  Unframed Print
Price	£0.00

Description

A release from Robert Taylor's Protagonists series commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Midway. Now over 70 years ago, on 4th June, 1942, in one of the greatest naval victories of all time, the Japanese fleet was decimated in a mighty battle off Midway Island by a handful of courageous US Navy pilots. It was a blow from which the Japanese Navy never recovered. Japan's strategists had long prepared for a decisive action in which they could destroy the US Pacific fleet, and this they hoped to do at Midway. Admiral Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, was convinced that a threat to Midway Island would compel the enemy fleet to challenge the overwhelming Japanese forces, under whose heavy guns and bombs, he imagined, it could not hope to survive. Arrogant and over-confident, the Japanese were to fall into a trap that would cost them one of the most decisive battles in history, and alter the course of the war in the Pacific. First points went to the Japanese when the heroic US Navy Devastator torpedo bombers were shot out of the sky, Bill Esders being one of the only two survivors who flew off carriers. However, gathering unseen high overhead, flown by the most battle-experienced pilots in the US Navy, were the SBD Dauntless dive bombers. Like hawks swooping on their prey, they came plummeting down from the sky. Within a matter of minutes, half of the entire Japanese Carrier Force was committed to the deep. Recreating a scene from the Battle of Midway in his remarkable painting, Robert Taylor gives us a dramatic pilot's-eye view of the Japanese carrier Akagi, as an SBD Dauntless from the USS Enterprise lines up his sights and prepares to deliver the coup-de-grace. We are treated to a superb study of the redoubtable SBD, with perforated dive flaps fully extended, as it hurtles towards the yellow deck...Each print in Robert Taylor's Limited Edition , Midway - Strike Against The Akagi , is signed by Robert Taylor and 6 Battle of Midway Veterans : Lieutenant Commander DICK BEST , Captain ROBERT ELDER , Major General MARION CARL , Commander BILL ESDERS , Captain SCOTT MCCUSKEY and Captain JACK REID...priced @ Sold...To complement the purchase of your fine art print, we are now able to offer a professional Picture Framing service. For further details please contact us by phone or email.