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Summary
Reproduction of drawing is a head and shoulders portrait of American soldier, S/Sgt. Elwin Miller, wearing his helmet as he smokes a cigarette in Germany during World War II.
Image published in Drawing fire : a combat artist at war / Howard Brodie. Los Altos, CA: Portola Press, 1996, p. 23, with the accompanying caption: After a siege of malaria, I was ordered back to duty in the U.S. and then sent to Europe. In Germany I met S/Sgt. Elwin Miller as his company was preparing to attack. There was a MG bullet in his helmet from previous action, for which he received the Purple Heart, Silver Star and British Military Medal.
Signed on print: Sgt. Howard Brodie Germany '45.
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Date
01/01/1945
Contributors
Brodie, Howard, 1915-2010, artist
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