Craig Kodera & William Phillips The Men Who Brought The Dawn, Sold As A Matched Set. Lonely Flight To Destiny, The World Forever Changed.

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Craig Kodera

Item ID:

GRLONELY

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Yes as of 2/11/2012

Status:

Retired

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New

Edition:

Fine Art

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Limited Edition to 1000 s/n

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$3,500.00

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CRAIG KODERA & WILLIAM PHILLIPS The Men Who Brought the Dawn, Sold as a Matched Set. Lonely Flight to Destiny, The World Forever Changed.

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On August 8, 1945, Russia finally joined the Allies and declared war on Japan. Despite that and the atomic bombing of Hiroshime, the Japanese still did not surrender. By 10:00 that same night, a second atomic bomb was placed in a B-29 Superfortress named .

At 3 PM, on August 4, 1945, Colonel Paul Tibbets began briefing the crew of the B-29 named Enola Gay. In the early morning hours of August 5, the crew made its final preparations. At midnight there was a final briefing. The call sign decided upon was, innocuously, "Dimples." Tibbets finished his talk: "Do your jobs. Follow your orders. Don't cut corners and don't take chances." Then the weather officer passed along last-minute information and the chaplain offered a prayer.
Countersigned by Charles D. Albury, pilot, "Bock's Car"; Fred J. Olivi, copilot; James F. Van Pelt Jr., navigator; John D. Kuharek, flight engineer; and Raymond C. Gallagher, assistant flight engineer.

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Artist Bio: "Aviation is this artist's living. Painting is a joy and a choice; not his career. Craig Kodera career is as an airline pilot, so each of his paintings reflect an intimate knowledge of how it feels to fly and what it looks like out the cockpit. ""I paint what I see,"" he says,""and my office window is at 35,000 feet."" An appreciation of aviation came easy, since Kodera was raised in what he terms an ""aviation family,"" which included an uncle who flew with the famous Doolittle Raiders during World War II. At an age when most teens were trying to ace the driver’s test, Kodera had earned his private pilot’s license. A love of painting also came early. Kodera started seriously studying it at fourteen. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in mass communications and spent a year as a commercial artist before joining the Air Force Reserve, where he was assigned to the Air Rescue Service and then the Strategic Air Command. There his knowledge of air war history grew while he logged literally thousands of hours flying. Eventually Kodera left the service and joined American Airlines. When he isn’t flying, he’s usually painting. His artwork is part of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum permanent collection and hangs in many museums. He is also the charter vice president of the American Society of Aviation Artists, a member of the Air Force Art Program and serves with the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators."
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