- Title Information
- Title
- Firefight on Peleliu Island
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- McDermott, John
- Name Part:
Date
- 1919-1977
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- artist
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre (aat)
- paintings (visual works)
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1944
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 painting; 89.1 x 118.1 cm.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Original acrylic painting on canvas, initialled by McDermott; night battle scene, 2 flame-throwing tanks firing toward right, into narrow ravine between cliffs, American infantry moving up behind them.
- Note
- McDermott enlisted in the US Marine Corps in September 1942. He served as an combat artist with a map-making section and covered the campaigns on
Guadalcanal, Guam and Okinawa.
- Subject
- Topic
- World War, 1939-1945
- Topic
- Tank warfare
- Subject
- Topic
- Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944
- Related Item:
Host
(displayLabel="Collection:")
- Title Information
- Title
- Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
- Identifier:
COLID
- 13
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/askb
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="ASK Brown Call No.")
- McDermott-4
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1300999608368750
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/")
- In Copyright
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for
research.