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Aboard aircraft carrier "Belleau Wood" on raid on Wake Island: view from starboard fantail on flight deck, two chiefs in foreground, "talkers" in rear

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Year:
1943
Contributor:
Greenhalgh, Robert F., 1915-2017 (artist)
Genre:
drawings (visual works)
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 > Pacific Area
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations
Aircraft carriers
Extent:
1 drawing; 30.2 x 39 cm.

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Abstract:
Original ink and wash drawing signed and dated by Greenhalgh; view from corner of carrier flight deck, sailors and officers under wing of plane; fleet of warships at sea in background.
Notes:
Title from ink notation on verso. Published in Yank, November 19, 1943, page 3 as: "The largest task force ever assembled in the Pacific forms the background for this scene in the evening. The two chiefs at the left are getting a little air after chow while the talker in the center reports a plane formation to the bridge. 'The Sunday afternoon before the raid,' Sgt. Greenhalgh wrote, 'the pilots had a game of touch football on the flight deck. And during the raid I was busy eating steak and ham sandwiches.'"
Gift of the artist, 2001.

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Greenhalgh, Robert F., "Aboard aircraft carrier 'Belleau Wood' on raid on Wake Island: view from starboard fantail on flight deck, two chiefs in foreground, 'talkers' in rear " (1943). 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:247094/

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