View from atop a submarine

Original pen and ink and wash sketch, signed and dated by Reeks, of two soldiers standing on the deck of a submarine, one of them pointing towards a ship with guns in the distance; one soldier partway out of a hatch looking in the other direction. Original pen and ink and wash sketch, signed and dated by Reeks, of two soldiers standing on the deck of a submarine, one of them pointing towards a ship with guns in the distance; one soldier partway out of a hatch looking in the other direction. 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.