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depict modern and historic aviation along with military, civil and space flight. We also deal
with naval subjects and military armor and infantry works. These prints are from all the top
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signed by the artist and by famous pilots and veterans. If you are looking for a specific
plane, pilot, artist or subject please contact us.
depict modern and historic aviation along with military, civil and space flight. We also deal
with naval subjects and military armor and infantry works. These prints are from all the top
national and international artists along with some local artists. Many of our prints are
signed by the artist and by famous pilots and veterans. If you are looking for a specific
plane, pilot, artist or subject please contact us.
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The "Ruptured Duck"
16 x 20 Lithograph ---- Limited Edition 650 Prints signed bt the Artist.
Col. Dean Davenport, the co-pilot of the World War II bomber crew whose role in the Doolittle
raid over Japan was recounted in the book and movie "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo".On the
morning of April 18, 1942, a group of 16 Army Air Forces B-25 bombers, under the command
of Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle, took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet for a low-level, daylight
bombing attack that brought the war to the Japanese homeland for the first time.The raid
resulted in minimal damage to military and industrial sites, but lifted the spirits of an American
home front reeling from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It forced the Japanese to take
costly defensive measures and brought Doolittle the Medal of Honor. The seventh plane to
depart from the Hornet was the Ruptured Duck, flown by First Lt. Ted W. Lawson and his
co-pilot, Second Lieutenant Davenport. They flew the twin-engine bomber 700 miles to Tokyo,
bombed a steel plant, then headed for an airstrip in China. The 16 bombers, without enough
fuel to return to the Hornet, were supposed to land at airfields in parts of China that had not
fallen to the Japanese. But they ran into a storm, and most of the 80 crewmen bailed out or
crash-landed. Three died and eight were captured by Japanese troops. Three of the captives
were executed and one died of dysentery. The Ruptured Duck crashed at night in the East
China Sea, a quarter-mile from a beach where its pilots had tried to land. Lieutenants Lawson
and Davenport, strapped into their seats, were catapulted through the plane's windshield as it
sank in shallow water. Lieutenant Lawson suffered a gashed leg and facial injuries and
Lieutenant Davenport had a fractured leg and a concussion, but the pilots and the other three
crewmen swam to the beach.They were found by Chinese guerrillas, and over the next seven
weeks were carried in chairs, rickshaws and trucks until being rescued by an Army Air Forces
plane that took them to India. The crewmen flew on to the United States and, with other
returning Doolittle fliers, received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Gen. Henry Arnold,
commander of the Army Air Forces.The ordeal of the Ruptured Duck's crew was recounted in
1943 by the newly promoted Captain Lawson in "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (Random
House), written while he was convalescing from the amputation of his left leg. The book
described the moment when the battered lieutenants found each other on the Chinese beach:
"Speaking, and the sight of each other, seemed to bring us further along toward complete
consciousness and both of us began to moan, standing there next to each other in the black
rain." Lieutenant Davenport was a technical adviser for the 1944 movie "Thirty Seconds Over
Tokyo," in which he was portrayed by Tim Murdock, and he flew a B-25 bomber off a pier in
Santa Monica, Calif., in a scene depicting the departure from the Hornet. Dean Davenport,
born in Spokane, Wash., grew up in Oregon and was a pre-law student when he joined the
armed forces. He remained in the service after World War II and returned to combat in the
Korean War, flying 86 missions as a fighter pilot. He retired as a colonel in 1967. In addition to
the Distinguished Flying Cross, he was awarded the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit.
Col. Dean Davenport, the co-pilot of the World War II bomber crew whose role in the Doolittle
raid over Japan was recounted in the book and movie "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo".On the
morning of April 18, 1942, a group of 16 Army Air Forces B-25 bombers, under the command
of Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle, took off from the aircraft carrier Hornet for a low-level, daylight
bombing attack that brought the war to the Japanese homeland for the first time.The raid
resulted in minimal damage to military and industrial sites, but lifted the spirits of an American
home front reeling from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It forced the Japanese to take
costly defensive measures and brought Doolittle the Medal of Honor. The seventh plane to
depart from the Hornet was the Ruptured Duck, flown by First Lt. Ted W. Lawson and his
co-pilot, Second Lieutenant Davenport. They flew the twin-engine bomber 700 miles to Tokyo,
bombed a steel plant, then headed for an airstrip in China. The 16 bombers, without enough
fuel to return to the Hornet, were supposed to land at airfields in parts of China that had not
fallen to the Japanese. But they ran into a storm, and most of the 80 crewmen bailed out or
crash-landed. Three died and eight were captured by Japanese troops. Three of the captives
were executed and one died of dysentery. The Ruptured Duck crashed at night in the East
China Sea, a quarter-mile from a beach where its pilots had tried to land. Lieutenants Lawson
and Davenport, strapped into their seats, were catapulted through the plane's windshield as it
sank in shallow water. Lieutenant Lawson suffered a gashed leg and facial injuries and
Lieutenant Davenport had a fractured leg and a concussion, but the pilots and the other three
crewmen swam to the beach.They were found by Chinese guerrillas, and over the next seven
weeks were carried in chairs, rickshaws and trucks until being rescued by an Army Air Forces
plane that took them to India. The crewmen flew on to the United States and, with other
returning Doolittle fliers, received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Gen. Henry Arnold,
commander of the Army Air Forces.The ordeal of the Ruptured Duck's crew was recounted in
1943 by the newly promoted Captain Lawson in "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (Random
House), written while he was convalescing from the amputation of his left leg. The book
described the moment when the battered lieutenants found each other on the Chinese beach:
"Speaking, and the sight of each other, seemed to bring us further along toward complete
consciousness and both of us began to moan, standing there next to each other in the black
rain." Lieutenant Davenport was a technical adviser for the 1944 movie "Thirty Seconds Over
Tokyo," in which he was portrayed by Tim Murdock, and he flew a B-25 bomber off a pier in
Santa Monica, Calif., in a scene depicting the departure from the Hornet. Dean Davenport,
born in Spokane, Wash., grew up in Oregon and was a pre-law student when he joined the
armed forces. He remained in the service after World War II and returned to combat in the
Korean War, flying 86 missions as a fighter pilot. He retired as a colonel in 1967. In addition to
the Distinguished Flying Cross, he was awarded the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit.