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Abstract:: A Marine is seen from the back, climbing over a sand dune in combat. Two other Marines are seen in profile in the left background.
Notes:: Title from typed label affixed to verso. 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.

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Reeks, Harry D., "'Up and at 'em' over the sand dunes. (Over the top)" (1945). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:235119/

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"Up and at 'em" over the sand dunes. (Over the top)

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