Okinawa by Robert Taylor. (C) REG436 Flying Officer Jim York DFC

Flying Officer Jim York DFC

escorted by as many fighters

During the summer of 1999 Robert Tomlin was specially commissioned by the French Air Force to paint the Mirage 2000s of EC/12

with frequent snow flurries

Okinawa by Robert Taylor. (C) REG436 Flying Officer Jim York DFCDHM6576C. Okinawa by Robert Taylor. Following their victory at Midway, American forces had fought a long, bloody and bitter campaign to retake the Japanese held islands in the Pacific. By the end of March 1945, however, they had finally captured Iwo Jima and looked towards Okinawa, a province of Japan itself. But the closer the fighting came to Japan, the greater was the enemy's resistance. The five week long battle for Iwo Jima had been bloody,