USS North Carolina, Saipan Bound by Anthony Saunders. [Original Painting]

By June 1944 the US Fleet had made a huge leap across the Pacific to the Marianas, a small group of Japanese held islands of which Saipan would prove the most difficult to overcome. The landing were supported by the US 5th Fleet, which included USS North Carolina together with an increasingly powerful armada of battle hardened warships.

Original painting by Anthony Saunders.

Image size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm)