Amazing. "A SERIES OF CHILLING sketches done by an American artist on the front line of one of the most intense conflicts of the Second World War have resurfaced, on the 75th anniversary of the battle's most pivotal period. The drawings, sketched by artist Howard Brodie during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific in 1942, show the war in all its horror. Scenes sketched by Brodie include a group of stretcher bearers transporting a wounded soldier across a battlefield while under sniper fire, while another shows a gunner at the helm of a B-17 machine gun. Further drawings show a group of soldiers rowing ashore, with others displaying the reality of warfare as soldiers sit in cramped conditions in a dugout. The Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive by the Allies against the Japanese, and took place on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific." Battle of Guadalcanal: Sketches of fight that cost 30,000 lives resurface
Why is this stuff always billed as having "resurfaced", or "newly discovered", or the like by some news sources? Howard Brodie's work for Yank is very well known and was never "lost" in any sense of the word. He was even featured in a PBS documentary on combat artists around 2000.
They definitely were not lost or missing, the sketches are just forgotten, ignored, by the vast majority at least.....
There was a lot of combat artwork associated with the Guadalcanal Campaign. Here's a Naval Institute article from 2007: Combat Artists of Guadalcanal | U.S. Naval Institute Brodie's work is quite similar to Col. Donald Dickson's, only Dickson got there much earlier. I also have really liked the Navy's Dwight Shepler's work, he was another of the early 'Canal combat artists. Night Action off Savo; Dwight Shepler Truncated image: Full image location: http://navsource.org/archives/01/056/015673y.jpg Air Defence, Battle of Santa Cruz; Dwight Shepler Truncated image: Full image location: http://navsource.org/archives/01/057/015744u.jpg Kamikaze; Dwight Shepler
While looking for the pictures and since the topic is Guadalcanal, here's an interesting article I came across that gives the first hand recollections of four Marines that were there from the start. One is Sid Phillips, one of the Marines portrayed in the HBO series "The Pacific". Four Marines on the “Green Hell” of Guadalcanal
