Lowering the wounded, Mers el Kebir 1943

Original watercolor signed and dated by Bostick; sailors on deck preparing to lower wounded man on stretcher, with cables and winch, down to ambulance vehicles on dock below. Original watercolor signed and dated by Bostick; sailors on deck preparing to lower wounded man on stretcher, with cables and winch, down to ambulance vehicles on dock below. 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.