Gallant Ohio by Robert Taylor (AP) SQN246 Tanks design was brilliant

Tanks design was brilliant

and a trio of F-104 fighters would fly chase

and when it was clear a string of observation balloons could be seen in the distance

for this was a feat never before attempted

Gallant Ohio by Robert Taylor (AP) SQN246 Tanks design was brilliantDHM2264AP. Gallant Ohio by Robert Taylor. Spitfires of 126 and 185 Squadrons successfully fend off a last desperate attempt by enemy aircraft to sink the crippled American tanker Ohio, still some 80 miles short of the beleaguered island of Malta. Badly damaged and barely afloat the Ohio, assisted by Royal Navy destroyers Penn, (foreground), Bramham (lashed to Ohios port side) and Ledbury, limped into port to a tumultuous welcome, on August 15, 1942.