Geared for combat: Camp Forrest, Tallahoma, Tennessee. Overseas staging area, 1944, WW II

Original watercolor and pencil caricature, dated and signed R.M.; frontal view of overweight, jowly, spectacled soldier in large helmet, wearing rifle, holding dripping oil can; rear view of jeep with two soldiers in background. Original watercolor and pencil caricature, dated and signed R.M.; frontal view of overweight, jowly, spectacled soldier in large helmet, wearing rifle, holding dripping oil can; rear view of jeep with two soldiers in background. Morton joined the army in July 1942 and after training at Fort Meade, sailed for England in March 1944 as a technician with the 603rd Engineer Camouflage Battalion. He served in Europe with the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops (the so-called 'Ghost Army') in France, Germany, and Luxembourg. Gift of the artist, 1994.