Last letter?

Original pen and ink sketch of a soldier with pencil and paper, probably writing a letter home before D-Day, seated at a desk, with a cigarette in an ashtray next to him. Original pen and ink sketch of a soldier with pencil and paper, probably writing a letter home before D-Day, seated at a desk, with a cigarette in an ashtray next to him. Title from typed label affixed to verso. 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.