‘Sunday Morning at Cunel’ by Harvey Dunn, 1918, #NMAH. This vivid piece shows soldiers of the 5th Division, #AEF, during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in October 1918. In this battle, US forces incurred some of their heaviest losses of the #GreatWar.
#fww #fwwhist #USArmy #WesternFront #combatart
"With Manton's Guns, Hill 60, August 1917" by Will Dyson, #NMAH.
#Australian illustrator Will Dyson ranks among my favourite war artists. His drawings of the Australian Imperial Force on the #WesternFront are both evocative and powerful.
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DSC winner Pfc Charles Cameron, Co B, 3d MG Bn, 1st Div, #USArmy. He earned America's second highest valor medal near Soissons, France on 19/7/1918. During a trench attack, he instrumental in securing the objective. Painting by Joseph Cummings Chase, 1919, #NMAH #GreatWar #AEF #WW1 #wwI #trenchwar
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“Going thru Gas” by George Harding, 1918, #NMAH. Chemical weapons were but one of the many fearsome weapons deployed in the #GreatWar. In this drawing, doughboys of the #AEF assault across no man’s land wearing respirators. #gasmasks. #fww #fwwhist #ww1 #WWI #USArmy #soldiers #westernfront
Here is another of artist Joseph Cummings Chase’s magnificent paintings of #WorldWarI AEF heroes. This is Cpl Frederick McKaig, USMC, 83rd Co, 2nd Bn, Sixth Marines, 2nd Div. During the liberation of Jaulny, France in Sept 1918, he was cited for bravery as a company runner. #NMAH Collection. #WW1
Sgt Patrick Walsh, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry, #BigRedOne by Joseph Cummings Chase, 1919, #NMAH. Sgt Walsh won the Distinguished Servive Cross during a German trench raid on 1 March 1918. This portrait was one of many the artist created of #WorldWarI #AEF heroes. #fww #fwwhist #1stID
Pvt Fred Carney Co G, 2/26 Infantry #BigRedOne by Joseph Cummings, 1919, #NMAH. Pvt Carney was cited with the Croix de Guerre for bravery in action during the Meuse-Argonne offensive in the Autumn of 1918. #combatart #WorldWarI #AEF #1stID #fww #WWI #WW1 #AEF #doughboy #BlueSpaders
Cpl Mieczyslau Brocki, Co. B 1/16 Infantry, #BigRedOne by Joseph Cummings, 1919, #NMAH. Cpl Brocki served in the #AEF on the #WesternFront and in the occupation of Germany. He won two Distinguished Service Crosses at Soissons in July 1918. #WorldWarI #fww #doughboy #infantry #grunts #USArmy
Get your app in now for a #LemelsonCenter fellowship at the #NMAH -- great folks there in #HistTech . . . and much else. Due Oct. 15
https://invention.si.edu/study/research-opportunities
