In black night off Cape Matapan, the British destroyer Greyhound's searchlight suddenly flashes full on Italian heavy cruiser Fiume

Original gouache drawing signed by Coggins; night scene, destroyer at right flashing searchlight and firing on severely damaged cruiser at left. (Reproduced in Life magazine, April 14, 1941, page 36.) Original gouache drawing signed by Coggins; night scene, destroyer at right flashing searchlight and firing on severely damaged cruiser at left. (Reproduced in Life magazine, April 14, 1941, page 36.) 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.