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When the Japanese
hit Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, the battleship
USS Nevada, moored by herself, escaped the initial onslaught.
However, sighting the Nevada as she got
up steam, an enemy bomber laid a torpedo into her side, blowing
a massive hole near the bow. With her forward compartments
flooded, amid all the explosions, smoke and confusion, she
gallantly steamed for the open sea.
As Nevada moved towards the main channel
she was sighted by a flight of bombers and they immediately
attacked. The water around the great ship erupted in a series
of massive explosions sending plumes of spray high into the
air, enveloping the battleship from stem to stern.
With a number of fires now started, and
gaping holes all along her hull, and her bow low in the water,
Nevada was in danger of sinking in the entrance to the harbor.
Fearing that possibility, she maneuvered her bow onto the
beach at Hospital Point. At that moment the second wave attack
came in.
Robert Taylor's remarkable painting, the
first in a pair remembering Pearl Harbor and the dramatic
events that followed, depicts a fleeting moment during the
infamous attack that brought the United States into the Second
World War - the nature of which motivated her forces right
across the Pacific with the battle-cry "Remember Pearl
Harbor!"
We view the action just after 9:00 am
during the second wave attack on the Fleet. Aichi D-3A1 dive-bombers
from the carrier Kaga make a final attempt to destroy the
Nevada, as she lay beached at Hospital Point. With Nevada's
gunners defiantly defending their stricken ship, in the naval
dock behind, the destroyer USS Shaw is on fire; moments later
she will explode. Behind her, in dry dock, the battleship
Pennsylvania, and beyond her the cruiser Helena, and the Base
Force Flagship Argonne, can all be seen in the swirling palls
of dense smoke that pervade the navy yard.
A truly historic painting by the world's
premier military artist recreates the awesome reality of one
of the most significant and poignant events in history. Paying
tribute to their shipmates, and all those at Pearl Harbor
on December 7, 1941, four survivors from the USS Nevada have
signed each print in this historic edition, the first in Robert
Taylor's commemorative pair remembering Pearl harbor and the
dramatic events that followed.
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Overall print
size: 33 1/4" wide x 25 1/2" high.
Image size: 27" wide x 16" high.
| Remember
Pearl Harbor! by Robert
Taylor |
| 750 s/n prints w/FOUR
signatures. |
US $295 |
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| 75 s/n Artist Proof prints w/FOUR signatures. |
US $520 |
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Joining celebrated artist Robert Taylor
in hand-signing each print of the edition in pencil, every
copy of Remember Pearl Harbor! Is authenticated by FOUR veterans
who served on board USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor to proudly
remember "The Ship That Wouldn't Die".
 Paul
Adams USMC
Paul was in the Marine detachment
on the USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards he served with
the 2nd Marine Division in the Pacific - participating in
the battles for the Aleutians, and after a short trip on convoy
escort in the Atlantic in 1943, he returned to the Pacific
for the Battle of Okinawa in April 1945.
 Woodrow
Wilson Derby USN
Joining the navy in 1938, 'Woody'
was posted direct to USS Nevada, and was aboard at Pearl Harbor.
He served throughout the war on the Nevada and at the D-Day
bombardment off Utah beach where Nevada was the only US ship
from Pearl Harbor at Normandy - and later in the Pacific.
 Melvin
Ellis USN
Melvin Ellis joined the USS Nevada
on March 11, 1939, and served with her throughout the war
from Pearl Harbor to the Aleutians, from the D-Day Invasion
of Normandy of 1944, through Iwo Jima and Okinawa to the Marshall
Islands in 1945. He retired the service in 1955.
 Basil
Pratt USN
Served on the USS Nevada from 1938
through the attack at Pearl Harbor to 1942. In 1943 after
sub training, he served on board the USS 259 'Jack' submarine,
completing 9 combat tours in the Pacific and South China Sea.
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