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Portrait of a Wounded Man at Iwo Jima

Charles H. Waterhouse, an artist as well as a Marine Colonel, painted this scene depicting the Battle of Iwo Jima:

"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," acrylic on masonite, is by Col Charles H. Waterhouse, wounded in his arm on D+2 and evacuated from Iwo Jima.

 

Credits

From the Marine Corps Combat Art Collection, featured in Closing In:  Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima, by Col. Joseph H. Alexander, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), at page 22.  Part of the Marines in World War II Commemorative Series.