Evasive Action Over Sagami Bay
by
William S. Phillips
Twenty years ago, William S. Phillips’ The Giant Begins to Stir, a countersigned limited edition print, became one of the most collectable pieces in Greenwich Workshop history. Soon, history will repeats itself in Evasive Action Over Sagami Bay (above).

Shortly after bombing the Tokyo Gas and Electric Company, Pilot Lt. Harold F. Watson banks the B-25 Whirling Dervish Steeply to avoid a Japanese cruiser that lay directly on the aircraft's escape route to China. It was the ninth of sixteen aircraft to leave the carrier USS Hornet on the audacious April 18, 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan. That United States Army Air Forces bombers could launch from a U.S.Navy aircraft carrier was inconceivable at the time. President Roosevelt clamed the aircraft came from a secret airbase in the mythical Shangri-La. American bombers striking the Japanese homeland and passing within sight of Mount Fuji, the most sacred mountain in all Japan, delivered a succinct message to the warring Axis nation:
America, the Sleeping Giant, had begun to stir.

Evasice Action Signers at Washington D.C

1st Aircraft – Co- Pilot Lt. R.E. Cole
5ht Aircraft – Pilot – Capt. D. M. Jones
9th Aircraft – Navigator – Lt. T. C. Griffin
10th Aircraft – Gunner – SSgt. E.W. Horton Jr.
12th Aircraft – Pilot – Lt. W.M. Bower

This was an all volunteer mission. There were 16 planes in total each with a crew of 5 men. Of the 80 men in the mission there are 16 surviving today. The ranking of the men above was at the time of the mission – many of these men stayed in the service achieving a higher rank when they left.
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