Ten High

Commissioned artwork showing Liberator B-24D, Tail Number: 42-40665, nicknamed "Ten High" of 9th AF crippled after the clash with german fighters - July 19th 1943.
Here is the story described by Nicholas Lellenberg:
Of the stories told by fliers who participated in the July 19, 1943 attack on Rome, none is more exciting than that of one Liberator pilot who never saw the Italian capital, being forced by mechanical failure to turn back. The twenty minutes which followed were the most harrowing in the lives of the American airmen. To evade the attacking ME 109s, the ship descended from 10,000 feet to within ten feet of the sea.
During this time, Lieutenant Ben Walsh was having great difficulty maintaining the ship in steady flight. The No. 4 engine was hit and damaged; the entire ship was like a sieve as a result of hundreds of hits from 20mm and 30 cal. fire. Lt. Walsh, despite serious wounds in the back and neck from cannon fire, kept his ship in the air and managed to climb it back to 4,500 feet before ordering the crew to bail out as the ship reached the coast of Malta. Lt. Walsh and the co-pilot landed in the sea, the others upon the shore. Lt. Walsh was picked up after four hours by naval craft from Malta.