Night after night as USS Barb patrolled off the Japanese Home Islands. GENE FLUCKEY saw a Japanese troop train making its way along the seacoast to the port, bringing fresh troops to be sent against American Marines in the hard-fought island campaign. FLUCKEY decided to stop the train!

He designed a pressure switch that would detonate the explosive charge when the train rolled over it. The eight men he picked were all former Boy Scouts. FLUCKEY reasoned that they could be able to take care of themselves in the event they had to be left behind. As USS BARB lay a mere 600 yards off the coast, the eight men paddled ashore in two rubber rafts with their deadly cargo. This was the first AND ONLY time that American military men stepped foot on the Japanese Home Islands in World War II.

The two rafts were just halfway back to BARB when the troop train came along, only to be blown sky-high! The men in the rubber rafts saw pieces of the locomotive blown hundreds of feet in the air, the boilers blew; train cars started on fire and soon military vehicles with screaming sirens were flying along the coast highway.

This event is depicted in FULL COLOR by artist RAINER HANXLEDEN and all 1,000 prints are hand-signed by RADM FLUCKEY. With the Congressional Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses and many other medals and awards, RADM GENE FLUCKEY is the MOST highly decorated American submariner in history! Print size is 18" x 24" and in FULL COLOR, sold by Sharkhunters.