Digging in!

Original pen and ink and wash sketch of soldiers digging holes, others around, body in right foreground Original pen and ink and wash sketch of soldiers digging holes, others around, body in right foreground Title from ink label affixed to verso. Continues: 'A body lays covered with a poncho beside three marines concerned only with their protection in the hole they're digging. The sand in the background is just settling back to the earth after being blasted up by mortar fire'. 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.