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"BAGHDAD EXPRESS"
Special Operations Assault into Iraq
by U.S. Army Combat Artist Frank M. Thomas (LTC)
Original 36"x 54" Acrylic/Canvas Painting
found in Collection of U.S. Army Center of Military History, Washington, D.C.
Background:
Special Operations/Delta Force commando teams were used extensively in the days before and during Operation Desert Storm. They performed small team assaults into Iraq and Iraqi occupied Kuwait, to eliminate high priority targets, etc. The Special Operations helicopters were heavily equipped with electronics designed to jam enemy radar, thereby, making our aircraft invisible in the night sky. This CH-47 Chinook helicopter has delivered its load to an undisclosed location deep in Iraq, but was detected by enemy spotlights and then fired upon. The crew chief is returning fire with his M-60 machine gun stinger.
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Canvas Art Print Offerings:
24" x 36" (signed by artist/rolled - ready to stretch)..........................$288.75
tube shipped.......................+$13.50
32" x 48" (signed by artist/rolled - ready to stretch)..........................$552.75
tube shipped.......................+$14.50
(NOTE: The rolled print may be stretched in most frame shops before framing.
*Please note*: Artist Frank Thomas' studio lithographic art print and giclee' canvas art print sales have now been resumed as of November 1st, 2008. He and his wife, Patreecia, have completed an eighteen month mission in the Ohio-Cleveland Mission, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, at the Kirtland Historic Village Sites, Kirtland, Ohio. He was asked by LDS Church General Authorities to paint early Church history scenes of 1830's Kirtland.
He has now returned home to his art studio at 206 North 100 East, Holden, Utah 84636 and is producing LDS historical paintings and Old West paintings at that site. His art prints may be purchased online by credit card or by personal check.
Call Frank at his Studio" (435) 795-2206 or (435) 406-9526, or contact directly by email wildgoose@crystalpeaks.com.