"The USS Houston" Size:18" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas; $825.00 CAD USS Collett and HMAS Hobart

USS Collett and HMAS Hobart in action off the coast of North Vietnam

HMCS Bonaventure

This work depicts naval engagement involving three US Navy destroyers

It will be the first strike against the Japanese home islands by the US in world war II

Against overwhelming odds

"The USS Houston" Size:18" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas; $825.00 CAD USS Collett and HMAS HobartThe Houston was a US cruiser stationed in the far east at the outbreak of World War II. The Houston and a smattering of other allied ships were all that could be mustered against the powerful Japanese naval forces sweeping through southeast Asia and into the Dutch East Indies. Facing a number of defeats, the surviving allied ships decided to abandon the East Indies and make their escape before the Japanese cut them off. The USS Houston together with