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 US Battleship USS Indiana, In naval art prints by Top naval artist Ivan Berryman. USS Indiana art prints available only direct from Cranston Fine Arts the naval art print company at these great prices.


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USS Indiana, First Tour of Duty by Anthony Saunders

Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 25 inches x 15 inches (64cm x 38cm). Price £95.00

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Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 25 inches x 15 inches (64cm x 38cm). Price £130.00

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Limited edition of 50 giclee canvas prints. Image size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £370.00

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Original painting by Anthony Saunders. Image size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £3000.00

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Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm). Price £2.00

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**Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. (1 copy reduced to clear) Image size 25 inches x 15 inches (64cm x 38cm). Price £70.00

ITEM CODE DHM0517

On the 29th and 30th January 1943 USS Indiana supported the operations on Rennell island. In June 1943 she joined Task group 36.3 during the campaign for new Georgia. operating from Noumea in New Caledonia.  Until returning back to Pearl harbor arriving there on the 9th August 1943.  USS Indiana joined the Task force 58  a large carrier force set with the task top launch an attack on the Marcus islands which took part of the 31st August returning again with the force back to Pearl harbor. where Indiana was dry docked for 16 days.leaving again Pearl harbor on route for the Fiji islands as part of the supporting force for the invasion of the Gilbert islands.  But on the 11th November under the command of Admiral Lee now commander of battleships, Pacific. set sail to join Task group 50.1 under the command of Admiral C A Baldy Pownall. these two task groups proceeded to the Gilbert Islands to bomb the Japanese positions of the Gilbert and Marshall islands. These raids were aimed to clear the way for The US landings on Tarawa and Makin on the Gilbert islands

USS Indiana was attacked by Japanese  torpedo Bombers off Tarawa. This was the first time USS Indiana had been attacked. and during the attack Indiana shoot down one of the Bomber aircraft.  On the 25th November USS  Indiana was assigned tot he fast carrier Task group 50.4  joining the battleships, USS Alabama, USS South Dakota with the carriers USS Bunker Hill and USS Monterey. This task group supported  the operations at Makin This task group came under air attack on the 27th 28th November but with minor damage.  After the campaign on the Gilbert islands USS Indiana joined the newly formed Task group 50.8 on the 6th December 1943. The group was sent to joined task Force 58 for the air strikes against Japanese positions on Taroa and Kwajalein. and  Indiana took part in the shelling of Kwajalein Atoll. on the 30th January 1944. On the 1st February USS Washington collided with Indiana causing serious damage and three crew were killed. Both battleships sailed  to Majuro Lagoon for temporary repairs.  USS Indiana returned back to Pearl Harbor arriving on the 13th to start repairs.  repairs were completed on the 30th |April 1944 and she again rejoined task force 58 for the bombarding of Ponape island on the 1st may 1944. and In June taking part in the Bombarding of the Marianas  on Saipan.

On the 19th June the Japanese launched a massive air attack against the group..  USS Indiana shoot down a torpedo Place which was attacking her. another torpedo Bomber came close toe Indiana, which launched a torpedo before being shot down. The Gunners of the Indiana opened fire on the approaching torpedo and luckily destroyed it 50 metres before it reached the ship.  The only damage to the battleship was a small denting of the ship side platting when an Japanese aircraft hit the side.  A total of 293 Japanese aircraft were lost during these attacks on the task Force. and the attack is often given the name of the " Marianas turkey shoot.".

In August 1944 USS Indiana joined task Group 38.3 bombarding the Palaus and The Philippines later that month and helping prepare for the Invasion of the Leyte.  On the 23red October 1944 USS Indiana returned to Bremerton, Washington for  repairs. work was carried out and completed by the 6th December 1944. ready to sail again for Pearl Harbor. arriving on the 12th December.  on the 24th January USS Indiana took part in the bombardment of Iwo Jima. and  Okinawa on the 24th march   Over the preceding month the task Force would com e under kamikaze attacks. and the task force aircraft would attack and sink the Japanese mighty battleship Yamoto. While at Okinawa a Typhoon on the 5th June caused damage tot he fleet. Indiana only received slight damage.. on the 1st July USS Indiana left Leyte to support the carriers of Task group 38.1 to Attack Tokyo and ON the 14th July Indiana took art in the bombarding of the Kamaishi Steel Works at Kamaishui, Honshu,  Japan. this was the first  gunfire attacks on the the Japan.  On the 29th July  the battleship took part in the bombarding of Hamamatsu and on the 9th august she bombarded Kamaishi and supported the air strikes at Honshu and later the air attacks on Tokyo. When Japan surrendered USS Indiana was aprt of the Occupation force sending over 300 sailors and marines on shore.  and arrived at Tokyo bay on the 5th September  three days after the formal surrender. on the 14th September she sailed fro home and San Francisco. arriving on the 289th September and becoming the first ship to arrive back from Tokyo. USS Indiana went for a major overhaul at Puget Sound on the 31st October and went into reserve on the 11th September 1946  She was stricken form the navy list on the 1st June 1962 and sold for $418,387 on the 6th September 1963 and scrapped in 1964.  Her anchor is at Fort Wayne and her mast was erected at The University of Indiana at Bloomington. 

 

 

 

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Special Offer Pack of All Four Prints Price : £420

Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson Price : £145

Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson Price : £180

Outbound Lancaster by Gerald Coulson Price : £135

Lancaster Lift-Off by Gerald Coulson Price : £115

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Gerald Coulson has been painting professionally for over 30 years and has a reputation that is second to none. Entirely self taught, he developed his technique to such a high standard that his work was published as fine art prints, enabling him to begin a full time painting career in 1969. Since that time his work, covering many different subjects, has been published and marketed worldwide as both open and limited edition prints. Gerald has had many one-man shows both in the UK and the USA and his work has been extensively exhibited throughout the world. A recent one man show of his in the UK attracted more than 3000 people in two days. The Fine Art Trade Guild have placed him in the top ten best selling artists no less than fifteen times - three times at number one. Coulson's passion for aircraft stems from childhood. This passion led to an apprenticeship as an aircraft engineer after which he served in the RAF as a technician and with British Airways as an engineer at Heathrow. His knowledge of aircraft engineering, combined with his drawing ability, led to him becoming a Technical Illustrator of service manuals for Civil and Military aircraft. These experiences and technical background have allowed him an insight and intimate knowledge of the aircraft he paints. Along with a unique ability to capture these aircraft on canvas this naturally led to a painting career which he has developed to successfully cover a wide variety of subjects. Following a trip to the 1991 British Grand Prix his interest in Motor racing was fuelled. His ability to capture the technical detail and a talent for painting subjects at speed meant that this was a perfect natural progression alongside his aviation work and he is now also firmly established as one of the worlds leading motor racing artists. A Vice President and founder member of the Guild of Aviation Artists he is a four times winner of the Flight International Trophy for outstanding aviation painting. He qualified for his pilots licence in 1960 and is still actively flying today - mostly vintage aircraft, and can often be seen buzzing over the Fens of Cambridgeshire in a Tiger Moth. Whatever the subject he paints, whether aviation, landscape or portrait, his unique ability to capture the realism and 'mood'of the scene is unsurpassed, making him one of the most widely collected and highly regarded artists in the world today.

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Save £155 on this specially selected pack of Gerald Coulson Lancaster prints. All four prints for £420, giving collectors these prints at trade discounted prices!

This pack of aviation art prints includes 4 separate prints, at a highly discounted price when purchased in this special pack. The prints included in the pack are :

Summer Harvest by Gerald Coulson,
Winter Ops by Gerald Coulson,
Outbound Lancaster by Gerald Coulson
and
Lancaster Lift-Off by Gerald Coulson.

In all, the prints have 12 different signatures (14 in total) of pilots and aircrew of Lancaster bombers.

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