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"THUNDER IN THE DESERT"
Arkansas National Guard 142 Bde 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 Arkansas National Guard Museum, North Little Rock, Arkansas
Background:
When the 142nd Field Artillery Brigade (142 FA Bde) deployed to the Persian Gulf in the winter of 1990, it was armed with 8-inch Self-Propelled (SP) Howitzers. designated as the US Army model M110. The aging 8-inch howitzer was still one of the most accurate artillery weapons systems in the US Army¹s arsenal. It was capable of firing a 200 pound High Explosive (HE) projectile to a maximum range of 16,800 meters (10 miles). Its best known feature was its ability to hit "Point Targets" with consistent round after round accuracy.
Arkansas' 142 FA Bde, with its attached Oklahoma National Guard 1-158 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Battalion was the only National Guard unit to actually fire in combat in Desert Storm. This scene shows the 2/142nd Field Artillery firing across the border into Iraq during a "prep" (a devastating preparation) of the battlefield only minutes before M1 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles of the First Infantry Division (mech) breached Iraqi lines and precipitated "Desert Storm."
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Canvas Art Print Offerings:
24" x 36" (signed by artist/rolled - ready to stretch)..........................$288.75
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.