Destroyed vehicles and other debris litter the foreground of the watercolor. Smoke rises from the left side. Two Marines with rifles are seen in silhouette on a ridge, one standing, the other crouching.
Notes:
Reeks joined the USMC in 1941 and saw action on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Bougainville and Saipan. He was the only official combat artist to land on Iwo Jima with the invasion force and spent thirty days on the island sketching the campaign.
Reeks, Harry D.,
"Battleground on Iwo Jima"
(1945).
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
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