Craps game, hospital transport ship

Original sepia pen and ink sketch, signed by Shannon, of recovering wounded soldiers gathered around a table playing craps as others stand watching, in sweltering heat below deck of a ship transporting them from Noumea, New Caledonia to Army Hospital San Francsico. Original sepia pen and ink sketch, signed by Shannon, of recovering wounded soldiers gathered around a table playing craps as others stand watching, in sweltering heat below deck of a ship transporting them from Noumea, New Caledonia to Army Hospital San Francsico. Shannon served as a war artist with the U.S. Army in the South Pacific War Art Unit in 1943. Later became picture editor and illustrator for the Army Information and Education Division, New York, 1944-1946.