Mission Beyond Darkness - by Robert Taylor

Mission Beyond Darkness
by Robert Taylor

Following the attack against Admiral Ozawa’s Japanese carrier fleet on June 20, 1944, Admiral Mitscher defies all rules of naval engagement: In total darkness, with the ever-present danger of enemy submarines, he orders every ship in his Task Force 58 to switch on lights to guide over 100 returning carrier-borne aircraft, all desperately low on fuel. Amid the confusion, unable to get a landing slot aboard the USS Lexington, and now out of fuel, a pilot and his gunner scramble from their ditched SB2B Curtiss Helldiver, as a Fletcher class destroyer manoeuvres to make the pick up.

Overall size: 23" x 34"

Available in the following editions

750	Limited edition	Signed by four aircrew personally involved in the ‘Mission Beyond Darkness’	$320
75	Artist's proof	As above	$520

The signatures
Ralph Yaussi	James Curry	Donald Gordon
Alex Vraciu