Sgt. James Webb

Half length portrait of Sgt. James Webb. Inscription included. Half length portrait of Sgt. James Webb. Inscription included. Pencil inscription reads: Sgt. James Webb, C.O.K. [erased] 27th Div, 2nd Marine Hosp. Saipan 6/44. "We held them until the [erased] came" ("Hello Pocket". Banzai attack - Saki rum). "3000 of them (Japs) hit us and they claim that 1500 of them were killed - They found them the next morning." Note on accompanying yellow page: "Comments on the big Banzai attack on which he survived while I sketched him. The Mariannas, 1944." Censor's stamp on verso. Benney was contracted by Abbott Pharmaceuticals of Chicago to do free-lance work depicting scenes of the medical services in war. He saw action in the Northern Marianas and Saipan.