F4F Wildcat - O'Hare's Medal of Honor Mission
The F4F Wildcat was the premier US Navy fighter at the beginning of the war. Wildcats could take punishment that their more nimble and lighter foes (mainly Zeroes) couldn't, and tactics could be used that brough the Wildcat out on top in battle more often than not. The Wildcat helped plug the gap in some of our nation's darkest days, early in World War II.
Early in the war, with the nation and the Navy still reeling from the series of disasters that started at Pearl Harbor, a task force centered around the USS Lexington approached the Japanese bastion of Rabaul. During this action, Butch O'Hare and his wingman found themselves the only aircraft available when a flight of "Betty" bombers approached the Lexington. His wingman's guns inoperative and his ammunition depleted, O'Hare intercepted the bombers and was credited with shooting down five to become the Navy's first ace - and first Medal of Honor winner - of World War II.
Book cover art painted for Bert Kinzey.
Print size 12" x 16", Unmatted, paper size 13" x 19" (Also available pre-matted to fit 16" x 20" frames- see below to order matting separately)
Offered are limited edition prints from a 200-print run created and signed by the artist himself (feel free to email the artist as to which is the lowest number in the series available). The image is in brilliant color on highest quality photographic paper which produces the sharpest and brightest image possible, with print life equivalent to litho prints. This un-matted print is sealed for transport in a self-sealing archival plastic envelope and shipped in a shipping tube for the safest shipping possible.
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