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"STEEL RAIN"
Oklahoma National Guard Firing in Desert Storm
by U.S. Army Combat Artist Frank M. Thomas (LTC)
Original 30" x 40" Acrylic/Canvas Painting
Found in Collection of the United States National Guard Bureau,
the Pentagon, Washington, D.C..
Background:
Six Army National Guard field artillery battalions supported the Allied ground offensive into Iraq. One of these, the 1st Battalion, 158 Field Artillery, Oklahoma Army National Guard, was armed with our newest field artillery weapon, the Multiple-Launch Rocket System (MLRS). It fires with pinpoint accuracy out to distances beyond fifty miles.
These southwestern Oklahoma citizen-soldiers supported the attack by firing salvos of MLRS rockets into Iraq, and continued to support the massive ground offensive with responsive, accurate and devastating fire throughout the Desert Storm campaign. Their rockets were so deadly, seemingly coming down out of nowhere, each scattering over 900 exploding bomblets, that the Iraqi soldiers called them "Steel Rain." The 1/158th FA, Oklahoma Army National Guard is currently stationed at Fort Sill, Okla.
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Canvas Art Print Offerings:
24" x 32" (signed by artist/rolled - ready to stretch)..........................$272.25
tube shipped.......................+$13.50
(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.