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Anthony Saunders US Navy Collectors Pack.
DPK0317. Anthony Saunders US Navy Collectors Pack. Naval Print Pack.
Items in this pack :
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DHM814. Pearl Harbor, USS California, by Anthony Saunders. At dawn on the 7th December 1941, 350 Japanese warplanes flew from their carriers and attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl harbor, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. the attack concentrated on Battleship Row which included USS California (Left) and USS Nevada (Right) which was the only battleship to get underway during the attack. However coming under intense bomb attack she was later beached. For the Japanese the success was not total, as the US carrier fleet was out on manoeuvres on the day of the attack. Signed limited edition of 1100 prints. Image size 25 inches x 15 inches (64cm x 38cm)
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DHM1417. Boiling Point - USS Missouri by Anthony Saunders. Launched on the 29th of January 1944, USS Missouri was the last and one of the finest battleships of any fleet. With a top speed of 33 knots, she earnt the name Fast Battleship, as the Iowa class to which she belonged were known. Bristling with an assortment of anti-aircraft, Missouri was as much a floating anti-aircraft battery as a battleship. With these qualities Missouri was well equiped to counter the desperate aerial attacks faced when she joined the Pacific Fleet. Here Missouri is seen repelling a kamikaze attack on the 11th of April 1945, with the destroyers Melvin (left) and McCord. Although one of the kamikazes did get through the curtain of shell fire, little damage was sustained. Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 25 inches x 15 inches (64cm x 38cm)
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DHM517. USS Indiana, First Tour of Duty by Anthony Saunders. To increase the strength of the US fleet in the Pacific during the critical early months of the war, USS Indiana went through the Panama Canal. On the 28th of November 1942 USS Indiana joined Rear Admiral Lee's aircraft carrier screening force. For the next 11 months, USS Indiana helped protect USS Enterprise and USS Saratoga, which had been supporting the US invasion on the Solomon Islands. On the 21st of October 1943 USS Indiana went to Pearl Harbor, but after only a couple of weeks left to support forces designated for the invasion of the Gilbert Islands. The battleship protected the carriers which supported the Marines during the bloody fight for Tarawa atoll. Then, in late January 1944, she bombarded Kwajalein for eight days prior to the Marshall Island landings on 1st February 1944. USS Indiana collided with the battleship USS Washington while refuelling destroyers, killing several men. Temporary repairs to her starboard side were made at Majuro and USS Indiana returned to Pearl Harbor on 13th February 1944 for additional repair work. The painting shows USS Indiana with one of the two carriers she protected. Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 25 inches x 15 inches (64cm x 38cm)
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DHM448. USS North Carolina, Saipan Bound by Saunders. By June 1944 the US Fleet had made a huge leap across the Pacific to the Marianas, a small group of Japanese held islands of which Saipan would prove the most difficult to overcome. The landing were supported by the US 5th Fleet, which included USS North Carolina together with an increasingly powerful armada of battle hardened warships. Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 24 inches x 15 inches (61cm x 38cm)
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DHM1265. Arctic guardian - USS Washington by Anthony Saunders. In the spring of 1942, USS Washington was the first of Americas fast battleship fleet to participate in combat operations when she was briefly assigned to the Royal Navy. On 28th June 1942, together with HMS Duke of York, HMS Victorious and an accompanying cruiser and destroyer force, she formed part of the distant covering force to convoy PQ17, bound for Russia. In the Pacific later that same year, she became the only modern US battleship to engage an enemy capital ship, sinking the Japanese battlecruiser Kirishima. Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 25 inches x 15 inches (64cm x 38cm)
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DHM1266. Escort for the Troops - USS New York by Anthony Saunders. The Atlantic ocean was the lifeline between Britain and America, as well as millions of tons of raw materials, GIs were also transported over in all manor of hastily converted liners. Protecting the troops from marauding u-boats and German surface ships was of paramount importance to the allied fleets. Although USS New York spent a good deal of the war in the Atlantic, she also participated in the Torch landings off North Africa and took part in the Pacific campaign, seeing action at both Iwo Jima and Okinowa. Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 25 inches x 15 inches (64cm x 38cm)
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DHM730. Okinawa Landing - USS Colorado by Anthony Saunders.The USS Colorado holds the all time record of 37 consecutive days of firing at an enemy and the record of 24 direct enemy air attacks in 62 days both while at Okinawa. Signed limited edition of 1150 prints. Image size 24 inches x 15 inches (61cm x 38cm)
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DHM931. USS Iowa leaving New York by Anthony Saunders. BB61 Iowa, was commissioned in February 1943 at the New York Navy yard. her first mission was to the North Atlantic in August 1943 to neutralise the threat of the German Battleship Tirpitz. By early 1944 she joined the Pacific fleet taking part in many of the major battles including Saipan, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. She was re-commissioned in 1951 for the Korean war and again in April 1984. Signed limited edition of 1100 prints. Image size 25 inches x 14 inches (64cm x 36cm)
Website Price: £ 320.00
To purchase these prints individually at their normal retail price would cost £960.00 . By buying them together in this special pack, you save £640
All prices are displayed in British Pounds Sterling
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