Description
Major Chester Coltharp, commanding officer of the 498th Bomb Squadron, 345th Bomb Group is seen sweeping into the Kavieng, New Ireland Japanese seaplane anchorage, which was Fifth Air Force’s target for destruction on February 15, 1944. Major Coltharp’s B-25D, “Princess Pat” and 1/Lt. G. D. McCall’s “Near Miss” are the embodiment of the legendary Major Paul I. “Pappy” Gunn’s revolutionary strafer conversion of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber into a devastating weapon of destruction. This artwork is reproduced as a full-page in Warpath Across The Pacific in the Eagles Over The Pacific hardcover book series.
