Browse Items (149 total)
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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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Tents - 14 Ack Ack Command
WWII-Tent Life/New Guinea.
Charcoal or black pencil drawing of tents on platforms with the sides of the tents rolled showing the cots inside, labeled, "Tents-14 Ack Ack Command."
Maurice explained that Ack Ack is an abbreviation for Anti-Aircraft. The platforms of the tents were spaced a fixed distance apart. The side flaps of two tents would be lifted up and tied together to make a continuous roof and create a dryer corridor between them. The laundry had to be kept off the floor because the rats would be attracted to them. There were no carnivores on New Guinea and the ships that came in carried Norway rats. Huge rats; the size of a cat or larger, infested the island killing the some of the natural animal life.
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Tents
WWII-Offices/New Guinea.
Pencil drawing of military tents with the sides rolled up showing cots inside.
Verso: "Spring 1945."
Maurice explained the tents were the at the replacement depot. Each tent was built with wooden floors of a platform with legs and had four cots each; one in each corner. Above each cot was mosquito nets. Each had a tent pole to have a canteen and other items.
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Tent Life
WWII-Tent Life/New Guinea.
Ink drawing of the inside of a tent on a platform.
Verso: "Thursday Dec. 7, 1944. This will give you an idea of what our tents are like. Note the palatial splendour exemplified by the raised wooden floors. The mosquito bars are hung up above the cots. At night they are lowered keeping the mosquitoes, which are outside, outside; and those which are inside, inside. Of course, when all is considered, less mosquitoes bite you, although the ones who do bite you bite oftener. When gorged with one's corpuscles they are said to desist from further biting. Should the victims blood supply give out before they have had their fill they also then cease biting and fly about the inside of the mosquito bar uttering muffled curses sotto voce."
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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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St. Augustines' -- Intramurros [sic], Manila
Manila, Philippines - WWII Drawings.
Pencil sketch of the inside of St. Augustines' church in Intramuros (Old City), Manila.
Verso: "Summer 1945."
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Spanish Style Building
Manila, Philippines - WWII Drawings.
Pencil drawing of a large Spanish-style church with a grand walkway and part of the building is over water.
Verso: "Summer 1945."
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Solid Comfort
Manila, Philippines - WWII Drawings.
Pencil drawing of water buffalo wading through the water showing only the head, horns, and back with the label, "Solid Comfort."
Maurice explained that often the water buffalo would be in the ditch with just their nose showing trying to get away from the heat.
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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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Soldiers Playing Cards
WWII-Tent Life/New Guinea.
Ink drawing of a group of soldiers sitting in a circle on cots in a tent, playing cards. One is laying on a cot reading a newspaper. In the foreground, there is an ink pen and box from an ink bottle.
Verso: "Winter 1944/1945."
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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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Sneaking Up on the Goat for Some Fresh Milk
Herman crawls towards a family of goats to obtain some fresh milk. There is a view of a stone wall, a small house, and some mountains behind the wall. -
Smitty & Friend
WWII-Tent Life/New Guinea.
Ink drawing of two men sitting on a cot in a tent, the closest man is smoking a cigarette and looking down at something in his hands.
Verso: "23 Jan 45. This is Smitty, one of my tentmates in the 282d R/Co. He is in the act of placing a coin & bracelet in an envelope to mail it home. A friend looks on. This is his bunk with all allied paraphernalia."
Maurice added that Smitty would take the coin with the flower. He had a spoon that he would tap on the coin to flatten it out, then cut out the center to make a ring. The sound of tapping would drive everyone nuts.
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Single-Level Building
WWII-Offices/New Guinea.
Small ink drawing at the top of the page. The drawing depicts single-level buildings (or barracks) in the middle distance, next to a few narrow trees.
Verso: "Spring 1945."
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Servicemen Portraits
Manila, Philippines - WWII Drawings.
Pencil portrait drawings (slightly caricatures) of five top generals in the anti-aircraft command. Written ranks underneath the drawing identify each: "Gen," "C of S," "G-3," "G-2," and "G-1."
Maurice explained the G1, 2, and 3 were departments; one of them responsible to welfare of soldiers, one of them planning unit for fighting - represented the different units and one of them is intelligence. Maurice was in the planning unit creating the drawings for technical manuals.
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Second, Smoke from the Bombs
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School Days
WWII-Work Assignments/New Guinea.
Ink drawing of men at tables all facing the same direction with books and papers in front of them.
Verso: "15 Dec. 44. Scene showing interior of our very busy (as you can easily see just by looking) military correspondence class. The open space between the top of the wall and the roof gives the appearance of a continuous mural circling room. The building is a long, low, ridge roofed building. The framework is made of 2x4s, the floor is cement, the walls tarpaper and the roof corrugated, galvanized iron. The tank seen outside, and above the roof of the other classroom, provides us with running water for showers and for bathing of face and hands. Quite a handy and unique thing to have around out here."
Maurice added that most of the buildings were improvised. Some of them would have grass hut tops, some would have corrugated metal, whatever they had available.
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San Juan del Monte
Manila, Philippines - WWII Drawings.
Pencil and ink drawing of the front view of San Juan del Monte, a three story church with a two tiered bell tower with a brick front.
Verso: "Summer 1945."
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Red Cross Recreation
WWII-New Guinea Entertainment.
Ink drawing of a man playing ping pong and another painting a mural. Through the window you can see other tent barracks.
Verso: "27 January 45. Interior, Huba Huba Hut. This is a Red Cross building and pictured here are some of the activities I wish I were participating in, ping pong and the painting of a mural. That would be right up my alley, not this training. Brrrr!! I shudder at the very sound of the word."
Maurice described the Red Cross building was several building, all with thatched roofs, connected together. It was referred to as the Huba Huba Hut with various rooms for diverse activities. One had a ping pong table, one a library of books, while other rooms were for general recreation and a dance floor.
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Red Cross Quiz
WWII-New Guinea Entertainment.
Ink drawing of various servicemen and women assembled indoors, sitting and standing among small tables under an open roof with structural beams.
Verso: "8 Feb 45. This is our local Red Cross building at APO 322. The scene was drawn during the Women's Army Corp (WAC) and the G.I.'s. The WAC's did not win but it was close with neither side doing too well. Everyone had fun so that's all that matters."
Maurice added, "This was at the Lae New Guinea Red Cross Club for soldiers; not for officers. "
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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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