Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 A6M Zero versus F4U Corsair. Artwork by Gareth Hector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 Painting by Donald Connolly; Lieutenant Robert Hampton ("Hammy") Gray wins the Victoria Cross for his actions in the Pacific war. A Canadian pilot serving on the carrier HMS Formidable, Gray was killed attacking the Japanese escort ship "Amakusa" in Onagawa Bay, August 9 1945. Sinking it with a 500-pound bomb, his plane -- riddled with bullets and cannon shells from the attack -- then crashed into the sea. Gray's body was never found. I believe the original painting is in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 By Jack Fellows: "Incident Near Niihau". Niihau is the easternmost of Hawaiian Islands, small but privately owned by the same family since 1864. But on Dec.7 1941, it was the designated rendez-vous place for any Japanese pilots who lost their way back to the naval task force from which they launched. The Japanese thought the island uninhabited, and instructed pilots of damaged aircraft to land there as well, if they could. Two aircraft found themselves there after the Pearl Harbor raid, both of them Zeros: one from the IJN carrier Akagi, and a damaged one from the carrier Hiryu. As the Japanese planes circled the island following the attack, two Curtiss SOC-1 Seagull amphibious biplanes from the heavy cruiser USS Northhampton, (part of Admiral Halsey’s Task Force Eight returning to Pearl Harbor after delivering Wildcats to Wake Island), were on patrol in the area off Niihau. "The Akagi Zero spotted them over the Pacific and attacked from above. The Seagulls slowed, dropped to wave-top level, and turned to keep the enemy fighter in their gun sights. On the seventh pass by the Zero, Radioman First Class Robert Baxter, gunner on the lead Seagull, waited for just the right angle on the fighter and fired. His .30-caliber shells struck the Zero in the engine and the Zero pilot broke off the engagement; he was last seen headed toward Niihau. He never made it." That what is depicted here. Meanwhile, the damaged Zero from Hiryu crash-landed on Niihau. For a pretty amazing story concerning its pilot, the locals -- and even its effect on the internment of Japanese Americans in the US mainland -- this Wikipedia piece is a fascinating read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 Pearl Diver The 'Val' spearheaded the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 and had a substantial impact on Allied shipping in the Pacific and Indian oceans until 1943. It shares in common with the Spitfire and Thunderbolt the rare elliptical wing shape. By 1944 only ‘kamikaze’ (referring to a ‘divine wind’ that scattered attacking Mongol fleets in the 13th Century) suicide versions were in front-line service. By Dreamwork Aviation Images Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 By Ron Cole: Nakajima B5N2 'Kate' torpedo/level bomber in action against Soviet invasion forces over Shimushu Island, one of the Kurile Islands chain north of Hokkaido, August 15, 1945. Japan had announced its surrender that same day, but hostilities continued in numerous places, including the Kuriles. The Soviets, as part of their massive, last-minute attack on Japan after five years of neutrality between the two, made landings on several islands of the Kurile chain, which the Japanese had heavily garrisoned. Although the landings on Shimushu caught the Japanese more or less by surprise, Soviet inexperience with amphibious warfare was blatantly obvious and it was only after an intense and bitterly contested battle lasting into the third week of August that the Japanese finally stopped fighting. Presumably Cole's painting shows an event just prior to the invasion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 "Zero In Trouble" by Antonis Karydis. Japanese Mitsubishi downed somewhere over the CBI Theatre by an RAF (RAAF?) Supermarine Spitfire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 P-38 "Buffalo Blitz" by Darryl Legg. Pacific Lightning painted a few years ago, in 2016, this is a P-38J, 432 FS, New Guinea, 1944. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 Long Range P51D Mustang Pacific Theatre Of Operations. Artwork by Mark Postlethwaite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 P 47 N. 19th FS 318 FG may 45 by Andrzej Deredos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 (edited) "FALCONS OVER IWO" BY GARETH HECTOR February 19, 1945: It’s D-Day in the Pacific as the F4U Corsairs of VMF-221, the “Fighting Falcons,” rip over the beachhead. Meanwhile, the men of the 4th and 5th Marine divisions battle inland. For many of them, it’s the first time they’ve witnessed Marine Close Air Support, and the impression is resounding: “It was magnificent!” For “Fighting Falcons” pilots like 2nd Lt. Dean Caswell, an extra dose of motivation has them “scrapping their bellies” to deliver their strikes: they’re flying for their fellow Marines. And the Japanese notice, radioing that “The enemy’s air control is very strong... aircraft are flying ceaselessly.” Before the day ends, 30,000 Americans will have successfully landed on Iwo Jima bringing VJ-Day one step closer. Edited July 17, 2023 by Mysticpuma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 RNZAF P40 Warhawk. Artwork by Reinis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 P47 versus Vals. Artwork by Roy Grinnell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 B 29 Joltin Josie the Pacific Pioneer by james dietz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 Mitsubishi Zero A6M2 by Roy Huxley Zeroes over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 Mitsubishi Zero A6M2 by Roy Huxley Zeroes over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 US Navy Wildcat. Artwork by Gareth Hector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 By Darryl Legg "Titled 'Dawn Patrol', this PB4Y-2 Privateer is an aircraft I have had a fascination with for years and after completing my 1/72 Matchbox model of this patrol bomber earlier in the year, I was inspired to capture it on canvas. As it was used during the last stages of the Pacific war during WWII, I decided to paint an atmospheric scene of the Privateer in its element, patrolling the vast Pacific. Acrylic on canvas - 50"x 20". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticpuma Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 "Early Launch" by James Dietz Colonel Doolittle and his co-pilot, Lieutenant Richard E. Cole, who were to be the first to take off their B-25's, discuss last minute instructions with Lieutenant (U.S.N.) Edgar Osborne, who was to be Launch Officer for the take-off. Other Army personnel scramble to their planes while USS Hornet Navy deckhands man their assigned positions for one of the most famous carrier launches in history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boom Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 (edited) Edited July 16, 2023 by Boom 1942 Pacific Air War Artwork, by MB Studios Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boom Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 It Began At Wake Island, by Shigeo Koike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boom Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 1st Chutai Meets Butch O'Hare, by Hugh Polder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boom Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 T-3 Returns Of USS Yorktown, by Alex Durr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boom Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Against The Odds, by Mark Stewart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boom Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 1st Marine Ace Marion Carl, by Roy Grinnell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boom Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Number 20 For Joe Foss, by Roy Grinnell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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