Although mostly self-taught, aviation artist Domenic DeNardo received formal art training at the Rhode Island School of Design and also studied engineering at the University of Rhode Island. As an illustrator, his art has been published in periodicals including Aviation Week & Space Technology, Business & Commercial Aviation, Commuter Air, Time, Wall Street Journal, etc.  His paintings have been selected for exhibition and awards by the EAA, CAE SimuFlite/Flying Magazine “Horizons of Flight," New England Air Museum, the Providence Art Club, and the American Society of Aviation Artists.

In this illustration Captain Don Gentile and Lieutenant John Godfrey of Woonsocket, RI are depicted on March 16th, 1944 during a target support mission to the outskirts of Munich. Gentile and Godfrey would become the 8th Air Force's most celebrated fighter element, heralded as the top leader/wingman duo in the European Theatre of Operations.