Yamamoto's Last Flight by Stan Stokes. (D) SIG2146STK0038D. Yamamoto's Last Flight by Stan Stokes. On April 18, 1943, in one of the more interesting, daring, and ultimately controversial missions of WW II, a flight of P 38s under the command of Major John Mitchell, intercepted and destroyed the aircraft carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet, and the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor. American code breakers had intercepted and translated a message
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Two Sopwith Camels were to fall to the Red Baron's guns that day
Japan entered the Second World War and invaded southern Burma
Hurricane Veterans edition of 25 artist proofs
Image size 12 inches x 9 inches (31cm x 22cm)
Limited edition of 450 prints
Beyong Victory can be seen the French Redoubtable
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Enemy fighters
The Confederates now rushed into the wheat field and through the position just moments before defended by Union cannoniers
Features the signatures of Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Welch MBE
The Duchy of Warsaw