The Battle of Manila Bay by Anthony Saunders AIT33 Sgt Ewart is shown taking

Sgt Ewart is shown taking the French standard from the 45th French Infantry Regiment

30am on the 23rd June 1945

had been training hard for weeks and the rumour on the grapevine suggested it might be the Tirpitz they were after

HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth at Alexandria by Ivan Berryman

The Battle of Manila Bay by Anthony Saunders AIT33 Sgt Ewart is shown takingDHM1347. The Battle of Manila Bay by Anthony Saunders. A splendid little war was how John Hay, ambassador to Britain, described the Spanish American war of 1898. Though the war was small in scope it was large in consequences; it promoted the regeneration of the American Navy and the emergence of the United States as a major world power. Fought primarily at sea, the war created an American naval legend in its opening encounter between the pacific