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Original painting by Charles Cattermole
at the outset of their daring raid in which the British battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Valiant and a tanker
Spitfires by Graeme Lothian
The quality of this image is not as sharp and colourful as the rest of our range
The command ship USS Ancon (AGC-4) can be seen in the background
Hellcat Fury by Robert Taylor (B) HOR71 Original painting by Charles CattermoleNT7B. Hellcat Fury by Robert Taylor. Truk, the small atoll in the South Pacific, was the major anchorage for the Japanese Fleet. Comprising a magnificent harbor and four heavily defended airfields, it was thought impregnable by the US forces as they fought their way up through the Pacific. But on 16 17 February 1944 a violent two day aerial assault by carrierborne aircraft of Task Force 58 exploded the myth. In just two days the US Navy flyers sunk