Amphibians in Scoglitti: American troops on beach in Scoglitti after invasion of Sicily, 1943

Original ink and wash drawing signed and dated by Bostick; 2 American soldiers with rifle and machine gun on beach; harbor buildings and DUKWs in background. Reproduced in 'Art in the Armed Forces' edited by Aimée Crane (New York, Hyperion Press, 1944), page 120. Original ink and wash drawing signed and dated by Bostick; 2 American soldiers with rifle and machine gun on beach; harbor buildings and DUKWs in background. Reproduced in 'Art in the Armed Forces' edited by Aimée Crane (New York, Hyperion Press, 1944), page 120. Bostick joined the U.S. Navy in 1942 and served as an artist and cartographer. He worked on amphibious map reproductions for the invasion of Sicily in 1943 and the D-Day invasion, 1944.