This I sketched because it presents a fine example of the Jap's endurance.

A view of a camouflaged Japanese bunker, surrounded by vegetation and with a pair of boots lying in front of the entrance. A view of a camouflaged Japanese bunker, surrounded by vegetation and with a pair of boots lying in front of the entrance. Title from typed label affixed to verso. It continues: 'Being so small that the average man could never get half his body into it, and yet some Nip lived in close quarter in it; - probably curled-up like an animal. "During his haste in leaving, he did not find time to put his shoes back on!"' Censor's stamp. Reeks joined the USMC in 1941 and saw action on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Bougainville and Saipan. He was the only official combat artist to land on Iwo Jima with the invasion force and spent thirty days on the island sketching the campaign.