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US Navy F-18E Super Hornet of the famous Blue Angels, climbs hard with "smoke on" & vapor coming off the wings. -
12” x 16” Oil on Canvas Original Available for Purchase Lt. Commander Edward “ Butch” O’Hare US Navy. February 20, 1942 (just 2.5 months after Pearl Harbor) O’Hare bravely took on 9 Japanese “ Betty” bombers headed to attack his aircraft carrier. With his Grumman F-4F-3 Wildcat of the famous ( Felix the Cat squadron) and shot down 5, instantly making him an Ace, as well as the first naval aviator to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor in WWII. Butch was killed in action a year and a half later while leading the Navy’s first night time raid from a carrier. Chicago O’Hare International Airport was re-named after him in 1949. -
USAAF Capt. Chuck Yeager's P-51D Mustang of the 8th AF, 357th FG, 363rd Fighter Squadron, stationed at RAF Leiston, U.K. 1944. Depicted in flight is "Glamorous Glen III" named after his girlfriend Glennis Faye Dickhouse. Yeager finished the war with 11.5 German Victories. He is most famous for the first test pilot to break the sound barrier in 1947. -
24" x 30" Oil on Canvas P-47D Thunderbolt of the 353rd Fighter Squadron flown by Maj Glenn T Eagleston, Squadron Commanding Officer and top ace of 9th Air Force with 18.5 kills, in the skies over France, Feb 1945. The Bald Eagle painted on the fuselage was his personal markings. Original Available for Purchase -
18" x 24" A F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron Sixteen (VF-16) gets the take-off flag aboard the USS Lexington during operations in the Gilberts and Marshalls November 1943. The deep blue Pacific, and the bright cerulean blue sky are the background for the US Navy's rugged Hellcat ready for a strike against the Japanese. -
Original 30” x 40” Oil on Canvas Available for Purchase Depicted: US Navy triple Ace, Lt (jg) Ira “Ike” Kepford flying his F4U-1A Corsair as he bounces and flames a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Zeke) off one of the Solomon Islands early 1944. In only 76 days of combat flying with VF-17 “Jolly Rogers” he finished the war with shooting down 16 enemy aircraft.
