REIGN OF FIRE - USS Pennsylvania at Leyte Gulf (1944) SIGNED LIMITED EDITION paper print
REIGN OF FIRE - Printed reproduction of oil painting by Mark Churms. PAPER SIZE 12"x18", IMAGE SIZE 11"x17" LIMITED EDITION PRINT/750 - SIGNED AND NUMBERED (IN METALLIC INK ON IMAGE) BY ARTIST MARK CHURMS (published by Mark Churms). PRINTED POSTER ON QUALITY PAPER STOCK (100# Matte Cover). Copyright Mark Churms 1998, All Rights Reserved.
ART PRINT DESCRIPTION: REIGN OF FIRE - World War Two United States Navy Battlewagon, BB-38, engages Japanese kamikaze airplanes 1944 A.D. The old Navy Battlewagon, U.S.S. Pennsylvania BB 38, steams "all ahead two-thirds" through light seas of the land locked Leyte Gulf. Only hours after the decisive nighttime surface action at Surigao Strait, the ship is again at General Quarters. At 8:12 am, ten Japanese Vals, drop from cloud cover and press home suicidal attacks on U.S. warships assembled in the Gulf. There is but one defense against these young determined pilots: the absolute destruction of their warplanes by concentrated anti-aircraft fire. Shots burst out in every direction, tracer and flak fill the air. In an impressive display of firepower, the gunners of the "Mighty Penn" blast four attacking planes from the sky in less than five minutes! With secondary and anti-aircraft batteries in action, the noise and vibrations are so violent that the crew gives the warship a new nickname, "Old Falling Apart!" The Japanese air attacks continue until November 1. "The Pennsy" can count ten kills and yet still more badly damaged enemy aircraft. From October 18 until November 25 she remains in these waters; completing thirty-seven days of fire support missions and enduring over one hundred air-raid alerts, including numerous Kamikaze attacks. Old Pennsy, a survivor of Pearl Harbor and Naval Unit Citation recipient, is the first of the American battleships to enter Leyte Gulf and the last to leave, after fulfilling her important role in the Philippines Campaign. She later survives a torpedo attack at the end of W.W.II and post-war Atomic Bomb tests in the Pacific. Finally, because of radioactivity, BB38 is scuttled just one month short of her 33rd anniversary in February, 1947. All art prints are personally approved by Mark Churms. (Art prints are shipped to your door, rolled in sturdy tube).
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