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The Royce Raid by Richard Taylor. - Cranston Military Prints

The Royce Raid by Richard Taylor.


The Royce Raid by Richard Taylor.

In early April 1942, under the command of General Ralph Royce, and almost a week before the Doolittle raid - seven B-25C Mitchells and three B-17 Fortresses of the 5th Air Force, lifted off from their base in Australia and headed for the staging field at Del Monte on the island of Mindanao, in the Philippines. The painting shows one of 5th Air Force B-25C Mitchell taking off from the Del Monte on Sunday 12 April 1942, en-route to hit the harbor and shipping targets at Cebu. In the three days of Royces raids, the Mitchells flew over twenty sorties, sinking and seriously damaging three Japanese transport ships, and shooting down three enemy fighters. In a triumph of surprise aerial strikes, all seven B-25s and their crews returned safely to base.
Item Code : DHM2307APThe Royce Raid by Richard Taylor. - Editions Available
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Signed limited edition of 400 prints. Image size 29 inches x 16 inches (74cm x 41cm)
Main, Vernon
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Senior Master Sergeant Vernon Main
Flew in B25s of the 13th Squadron, 3rd Bomb Group, during the Royce Raids.
Signature Value : £25
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+ Artist : Richard Taylor

Signature(s) value alone : £25		£95.00

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Limited edition of 25 artist proofs. Image size 29 inches x 16 inches (74cm x 41cm)
Main, Vernon
NO
PHOTO
AVAILABLE
Senior Master Sergeant Vernon Main
Flew in B25s of the 13th Squadron, 3rd Bomb Group, during the Royce Raids.
Signature Value : £25
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE

+ Artist : Richard Taylor

Signature(s) value alone : £25		£135.00

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Aircraft number 2247, flown by Lt McElroy, attacks the Yokosuka Yard near Tokyo. He was one of the 18 B25 Mitchell bombers which took part in the famous retaliatory raid on Japan.

Doolittle Raider, Tokyo, 18th April 1942 by David Pentland. 		On April 18, 1942, under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, a small force of B-25 Mitchell light bombers set forth on one of the most audacious air raids of World War II. Launching in a rough sea from the heaving deck of the carrier USS Hornet, the crews knew that even if they achieved success, they were not to return. Their mission to bomb Tokyo and other industrial targets some 800 miles distant would leave them barely enough fuel to fly on to crash-land in China. Nine aircraft were attacked by enemy fighters, every one made it to the target, all but one aircraft were lost. But the raid was a triumph. The Japanese High Command were so alarmed by the Americans ability to strike at their homeland they attempted to expand the perimeter of activity in the central and southern Pacific - with disastrous results. Lt. Col. Doolittle was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in recognition of the extraordinary feat he and his gallant crews performed. Miraculously most survived to fly and fight again later in the war, Jimmy Doolittle going on to command the Eighth Air Force in Europe at the time of the Normandy invasion.

Tokyo Bound by Nicolas Trudgian 		Doolittles B-25 departs USS Hornet with USS Enterprise in the distance.
Tokyo Raid, Doolittles B25 Launch from USS Hornet by Ivan Berryman 		The last remaining units of the fascist Italian Air Force attempt to engage B25s from the 340th Bomb Group who have successfully destroyed a vital enemy rail bridge in the strategic Brenner Pass, northern Italy, 10 April 1945. The enemy Me109s are completely routed by escorting P51 Mustangs of the 325th Fighter Group who are quickly on the scene. There was only one way the Germans were going to re-supply their beleaguered army in Italy against the relentless assault of the Allies pushing northwards - and that was through the Brenner Pass in the Alps. The Allies knew that if they could destroy this strategic labyrinth of heavily defended road and rail bridges, the enemy would either be forced to surrender, or perish. And the task of destroying these bridges fell to men of the US Twelfth and Fifteenth Air Forces who must fly their heavily-laden bombers dangerously close to the rugged Alpine peaks, and endure a pounding from the anti-aircraft guns lining the narrow pass below. Not to mention any roving enemy fighters, or the turbulent weather over the mountains.

Battle of the Brenner by Anthony Saunders.
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Senior Master Sergeant Vernon Main
*Signature Value : £25

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Signed limited edition of 400 prints.
Limited edition of 25 artist proofs.


Main, Vernon
(Senior Master Sergeant Vernon Main)

Flew in B25s of the 13th Squadron, 3rd Bomb Group, during the Royce Raids.
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