Ballast Point, San Diego" John Charles Roach is an official Navy artist whose training began with three years of study in Paris at the National Academy of Fine Arts and culminated in a Master's Degree from American University. He served in Vietnam and with the 7th Fleet as an official Navy Artist to document naval activities in-country and offshore. On active duty in the Naval Reserves he has completed artist assignments depicting the Submarine Force of the 1980s, Desert Shield and Storm, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Among his private commissions, he designed and sculpted elements of the Navy Memorial in Washington, DC and completed a mural for the USS Arizona Visitors Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Artwork and information courtesy of the Navy Art Gallery.