Browse Items (13 total)
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Briefing Room Cartoon
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Pencil cartoon drawing showing multiple men sitting in chairs around a leader with a diagram board under a lamp. The caption states, "H-Hour is 0800. It is now 0743. Synchronize your watches, G-2 will handle this hot spot near the incinerators. G-3 will cover the left plank thoroughly. In the meantime -- ."
Maurice explained it was commonly thought that the brass were still playing war even though the war was over. They planned 'activities' to keep the men busy, such as the most popular task of cleaning the area of all debris including cigarette butts and gum wrappers.
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Examination
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Pencil cartoon drawing of an examination of a solder (Maurice) by a doctor and a nurse. The doctor is putting a stethoscope against the soldiers back, and the nurse is writing.
Verso: "Winter 1945/1946."
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Hand-Pulled Cart
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Incomplete ink sketch of two men sitting on a large wheeled cart with one man pulling and one man pushing from behind.
Verso: "Summer 1945."
Maurice explained the men on the medical cart were Japanese prisoners of war who were wounded. One of the guys, Mack, who was studying Italian with Maurice at Michigan State was sent first to Europe, then to the Asiatic theater. He was among the first Japanese Americans to be sent as interpreters to fight against the Japanese soldiers who were still fighting in the north of the Luzon. Maurice.1655
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Japanese Soldiers
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Three pencil sketches of Japanese soldiers in different positions. One is a sketch of a man leaning on a shovel, another a man squatting, and the last man walking with his hands behind his back.
Verso: "Summer 1945."
Maurice explained these were Japanese prisoners of war and the pant style was typical of Japanese officers.
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Men Playing Cards
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Ink sketch of three men sitting on cots playing cards. One man is shown from the back shirtless and leaning on his elbow, one man has an open front shirt and is holding cards, and a third man is mostly obscured sitting on a cot behind.
Verso: "Winter 1945/1946."
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Playing Cards
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Ink sketch of three men playing cards in their pajamas with one man standing, another laying on the cot, and the third sitting on the edge of another cot.
Maurice explains this is from the time he was was in the hospital with hepatitis.
Verso: "Winter 1945/1946.
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Reading in Repose
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Two pencil sketches of a men laying down; one reading a letter and the other reading a newspaper.
Verso: "Winter 1945/1946."
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Soldier Study Sketches
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Pencil sketches of soldiers in varying states of completion; man with glasses squatting, a face, foot and leg with shoe and a back view of a soldier.
Maurice described the squatting man as a prisoner of war, saying, "We went to breakfast one day and there was a line. We looked at the end of the line and there was a Japanese soldier waiting to get fed so we took him as a prisoner of war and we built a little barbed wire enclosure where we kept him. Every morning as we walked by to get breakfast he would say "ohio" which was what they named him."
Verso: "Winter 1945/1946."
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Soldiers, sitting
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Two ink sketches of soldiers; one is a view from the back of a squatting man with a utility belt, and the other is a front view of a man sitting upright on a cot wearing pajamas.
Verso: "Winter 1945/1946."
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Study Sketches of Soldiers
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Four incomplete pencil sketches of soldiers sitting or laying on cots. One ink drawing in the upper right corner of two feet crossing each other.
Verso: "Winter 1945/1946."
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The Brass Planning Activities Cartoon
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Pencil cartoon sketch of officers sitting on comfortable chairs in a circle under a tall floor lamp. The caption states, "Retreat, Reveille, Inspections, Guard. They're all good, but I'm sure there must be other ways of making life miserable for the E.M. in the short time they will still be here."
Maurice explains that even though the war is over but they're still in the army so they're just finding devious ways to waste time until they are shipped home.
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Two Drawing of Men
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Ink drawing of a man leaning while he rests or sleeps and another drawing of a man on his hands and knees as though scrubbing a floor.
Verso: "Winter 1945/1946."
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Waiting for Pajamas
14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Pencil sketch of three men sitting upright on cots, wrapped in blankets while waiting for pajamas and playing cards. A bare light bulb shines above them at the top of the tent.
Verso: "Winter 1945/1946."
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