|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cranston Fine Arts  Aviation Art World War Two Veteran Signatures United States C  Cavit, Charles |
[UP] - Canning, Doug - Cannon, Joseph - Cannon, Michael - Carl, James - Carl, Marion - Carson, Leonard - Caswell, Dean - Cavit, Charles - Cavoli, William - Cervantes, Henry - Chevalier, Frederick - Childress, Hubert - Christie, Bill - Cinibulk, Robert - Clark, John - Clemons, Clark - Clingan, Wilbur - Clouthier, Leo - Coberly, Jat - Coe, Jerome - Coen, Oscar - Cole, Richard - Coleman, Wayne - Collinsworth, J - Compton, Keith - Comstock, Harold - Conant, A - Conlin, Raymond - Conte, Ralph - Cormier, Richard - Creel, L - Crockett, John - Crosby, John - Crowe, Steve - Cummings, Donald - Cunningham, Dan - Curry, James - Curtis, Bob - Cutler, Ed |
Captain Charles D Cavit
Enlisting in the Army Air Corps the month after Pearl Harbor, Charles Cavit trained as a Pilot and was assigned to the 567th Bomb Squadron, 389th Bomb Group in March 1943. Arriving in the UK in July he was immediately dispatched to Libya, detached to the 98th Bomb Group. A Co-Pilot on the Ploesti Raid of 1st August 1943, his first combat mission, his B-24 Jersey Jackass was shot down over Romania. Wounded, he was captured and taken to Bucharest as a PoW.
| Captain Charles D Cavit - Signed Aviation Art |
|
| Text for the above items : |
To Hell and Back - Operation Tidal Wave by Anthony Saunders. Flying at low-level over the Astra Romana oil refinery, Lt James Merrick of the 98th Bomb Group powers his B-24 'Lil De-icer' through the pall of burning debris as time-delayed bombs, dropped in error by a previous Group, explode beneath them. With any hope of surprise now lost, and taking heavy losses in the process, the crews of the 98th bravely hold their bombers on course. Allied planners knew that just over a third of all Germany's oil came from a single source - the oil fields at Ploesti, far to the east of deepest Romania. If the oilfields and refineries at Ploesti could be destroyed, then Hitler's armies would be dealt a savage blow from which they might never recover. |
|
Contact Details |
|
Sign Up To Our Newsletter!
This website is owned by Cranston Fine Arts. Torwood House, Torwoodhill Road, Rhu, Helensburgh, Scotland, G848LE Contact: Tel: (+44) (0) 1436 820269. Email: cranstonorders -at- outlook.com
|
|
|
