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Marine Airman
Kerr Eby #40
Charcoal, 1944
Gift of Abbot Laboratories
88-159-DX
A Marine fighter pilot stands by his plane, having just returned
from lending air support to men of the assault waves at Cape Gloucester,
New Britain. He and many like him showed amazing courage and grim
determination in strafing the Japanese while their buddies fought
doggedly on the beach.
A Message From the Marines
Kerr Eby #29
Charcoal, 1944
Gift of Abbot Laboratories
88-159-DM
A bomb, and hopes for its good use, being loaded.
Transport Wounded
Kerr Eby #17
Charcoal, 1944
Gift of Abbott Laboratories
88-159-DA
Wounded in a Pacific battle, these American servicemen are placed aboard a giant transport plane for the speedy flight to a base hospital. There their wounds will be given expert attention, necessary operations will be performed, and, where needed, physical or occupational therapy applied to fit them for a return to action or civilian life.
Online Exhibits that feature Kerr
Eby's work
Amphibious Operations in
the Pacific Theater
Marines
in Action
Navy Medical Art
of the Abbott Collection
6 December 1999