British Swordfish torpedo bomber from carrier Formidable, attacking Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto at Cape Mattapan, 1941

Original charcoal drawing signed by Coggins; British biplane in foreground flying low to the water, dropping torpedo toward battleship firing guns in background; 2nd biplane at upper right. Original charcoal drawing signed by Coggins; British biplane in foreground flying low to the water, dropping torpedo toward battleship firing guns in background; 2nd biplane at upper right. Coggins worked as an illustrator with Life magazine in 1941 and 1942. The following year he enlisted as an artist-correspondent for Yank magazine in the European Theater of Operations until 1945. Gift of the artist, 1994.