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FULL COLOR PRINT! The most impressive WW II fine art print ever offered! Genuine Ray Waddey Art

Only 500 FULL COLOR prints have been made of this beautiful oil painting, and each is hand-signed by these 14 well-known veterans of World War II. They are:

Otto Kretschmer – Knights Cross with Oak Leaf and Swords
Erich Topp – Knights Cross with Oak Leaf and Swords
Hans-Georg Hess – Knights Cross
Jürgen Oesten – Knights Cross
Helmut Witte – Knights Cross
Siegfried Koitschka – Knights Cross
Horst von Schroeder – Knights Cross
Gerd Thäter – German Cross in Gold
Herbert Werner – Skipper of U-953
Kurt Diggins – Skipper of U-458
Hanns-Ferdinand Maßmann – Skipper of U-409
Hermann Hoffmann – Skipper of U-172
Günther Heinrich – Skipper of U-960
Günther Rall – Knights Cross with Oak Leaf and Swords

In this group of veterans, you will find the Most Successful submarine Skipper, the Third Most Successful Submarine Skipper, the Youngest Combat submarine Skipper, the Third Most Successful fighter pilot OF ALL TIME, one who went through Gibraltar twice, one who was the LAST through Gibraltar and other important veterans of WW II – they all hand-signed these beautiful full color prints. Print AI Only $500 (plus $10 shipping)

USS BARB (SS 220) vs. Japanese Troop Train

Night after night as USS BARB patrolled off the Japanese Home Islands, Commander GENE FLUCKEY saw a troop train making its way along the seacoast to the port, bringing fresh troops to be sent against American marines and soldiers 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 to place the charge under the bridge ashore were all former Boy Scouts. FLUCKEY reasoned that they would 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 set foot on the Japanese Home Islands in World War II.

The rafts were halfway back to BARB when the train came by and was blown sky-high! The men in the rafts saw pieces of the locomotive fly high in the night sky; the boilers blew, train cars started on fire. Military vehicles with screaming sirens were racing along the coast highway.

This event is depicted in FULL COLOR by artist RAINER HANXLEDEN, and all 1,000 prints are HAND-SIGNED by Rear Admiral FLUCKEY. With the Congressional Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses and too many other medals and awards to name, FLUCKEY is the most highly decorated American submariner in history. Prints are numbered and ownership is registered with SHARKHUNTERS. Size is 18 x 24 inches – FULL COLOR. Print H Only $125 (plus $10 shipping)

U-99 vs. HMS LAURENTIC and HMS PATROCLEUS

There is no better image of U-99 under OTTO KRETSCHMER anywhere in the world. This FULL COLOR print by famed German artist Joachen Sachse shows the epic battle with these heavy armed merchant cruisers over the night of 3 and 4 November 1940.

When OTTO told us of this battle, he said he shot almost all his torpedoes into these ships and they would not sink, so he began his surface gun action. In one lone U-boat with just a single 88mm deck gun, he attacked two heavily armed British ships in what should have been a battle favoring the cruisers. Most submarine skippers would have departed after the many torpedoes would not take these ships down – but KRETSCHMER was cut from a different cloth. His duty was to sink these ships, and to OTTO, duty and honor were everything – he sank both ships.

The colors in this print are so real you will hear the roar of the deck gun and smell the powder. Many artists have said that the water is so real that you’ll get wet. You will also receive copies of the three logbook pages (in English) in which OTTO described this action. Print size is 18 x 24. All are numbered and ownership registered with SHARKHUNTERS. Print AH Only $350 (plus $10 shipping) NOTE – There are only 20 of these rare prints left. This beautiful print is hand-signed by Otto Kretschmer and is in FULL COLOR!

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All Prints are Numbered and Registered

All prints from SHARKHUNTERS are numbered, and ownership is registered here on our master computer. This ensures that you and only you have that specific print, and you further enjoy the security of knowing that your ownership of your own print is maintained here in the master computer.

Donation

10% of all the income from print sales is donated to the German U-Boat Memorial (photo left) outside Kiel and the U-Boat Archives in Northern Germany. To date, SHARKHUNTERS has sent more than $6,000 to the Memorial and $2,500 to the Archives. That is approximately 13,000 German marks to the Memorial and 5,500 to the Archive.

Did you know that the German Government gives no money at all to either the Memorial or the Archives? Your print purchase helps these vital entities continue to exist and thrive.