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WWII Soldier’s Sketchbooks
Topic Started: Feb 21 2017, 04:35 AM (61 Views)
George K
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http://mymodernmet.com/victor-lundy-wwii-sketchbooks

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Lundy, who is now 92, recalls his inability to listen during lectures. “I was busy sketching,” he admits. During his time in the infantry, he continued to sketch in his pocket-sized notebooks. The drawings, which were created between May and November 1944—when Lundy was wounded—take us from his initial training in Fort Jackson to the front lines in France. The vivid images show everything from air raids to craps games for cigarettes. A sense of longing for home is a recurring theme in his sketches, which include detailed drawings of his bunk as well as particularly dream-like drawing, titled Home Sweet Home, that shows a soldier lounging on a hammock.

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John D'Oh
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Nice article - there are some real stories there.

My grandfather was a pretty accomplished painter - watercolours and charcoal, mostly, and when I was a kid I remember him showing me sketches he'd made during WW1. Sadly, I have no idea what happened to them, he died in 1980. My mother doesn't even remember their existence, although she has about 10 of his paintings and drawings hanging on the walls.
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Mikhailoh
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Very interesting and personal glimpse into one soldier's war.
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Red Rice
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Nice work. Not surprised he became an architect. His rendering of perspective is perfect.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

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