" RELEASE YOUR BRAKES AND
HUNT FOR HEAVEN "
William Phillips
April 2015

75 s/n Giclee Canvas
14" x 28"
$395

April 2015 - Release Your Brakes and Hunt for Heaven - William Phillips

Beginning 1 March 1942, in preparation for the famous Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, twenty-four crews were selected to pick
up modified B-25 bombers in Minneapolis and fly them to Eglin Field, Florida. There the crews received intensive training
for three weeks in simulated carrier deck takeoffs, low-level and night flying, low-altitude bombing and over-water navigation,
primarily out of Wagner Field, Auxiliary Field 1.

Here William Phillips depicts Lieutenant Henry Miller, USN, from nearby Naval Air Station Pensacola supervising the takeoff
training which would prepare sixteen selected crews to launch from the USS Hornet on 18 April 1942 to attack Tokyo and
other designate sites in Japan. As a side note, for his efforts, Lt. Miller is considered an honorary member of the Doolittle Raiders.

 

 

Release your Brakes and Hunt For Heaven - William Phillips

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