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Grapes of Wrath

Dead Marines inside an amphibious tractor
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Description: Drawing, Charcoal on Paper; by Kerr Eby; 1944; Framed Dimensions 31H X 39W
Accession #: 88-159-DR as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories
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I make no apology for drawings such as this. The official designation of my job was activities of the Marines and dying terribly and magnificently is one of those activities. The inside of an amphibious tractor hit by an enemy mortar on the beach at Tarawa, it grimly shows the cost of the war

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