Finale by Don Connolly

Finale by Don Connolly in 1987, Beaverbrook Collection of War Art, CWM 19880046-001. http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/navy/galery-e.aspx?section=2-E-3-b&id=0&page=0
“On 9 August 1945, flying off the British carrier HMS Formidable, Gray led a flight of Corsair fighter-bombers into Onagawa Bay, Japan. With his aircraft riddled by anti-aircraft fire from the shore and from warships in the bay, Gray pressed home an attack on the Japanese ship Amakusa. Flying to within 50 meters of the ship, Gray sank it with a 500-pound bomb, but his badly damaged and burning aircraft crashed moments later, killing him.”

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