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WAVE Parachute Rigger

A women is preparing a parachute
Description: Painting, Oil on Canvas; by John Falter; 1944; Framed Dimensions 33H X 28W
Accession #: 45-127-I
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Falter used an official Navy photograph as the source for this painting. The photograph appears in a recruiting pamphlet printed in February 1944, the same month the Navy printed 40,000 posters and 45,000 window cards of Falter's painting.

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  • Art
Wars & Conflicts
  • World War II 1939-1945
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