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See SDSU Grad Jim Pollock sketches War In Vietnam| Contents |War Art Samples | Official US Army Documents | News Articles | James Pollock Non War Art In June of 1966 the U.S. Army Vietnam Combat Art Program was established, utilizing teams of soldier artists to make pictorial records and interpretations for the annals of army military history. Typically, each team consisted of five soldier artists who spent 60 days of temporary duty (TDY) in Vietnam traveling with various units, gathering information and making sketches of U.S. Army related activities. From August 1966 through 1970 the US Army sent teams of artists into Vietnam to record their experiences as soldier artists. A short history and overview of the U.S. James Pollock's home state was and still is South Dakota. If you were a member of one the U.S. James Pollock non war art main page WWW contact for Jim Pollock Art is jpollockATpie.midco.net Vietnam Combat Art Home Page Painting and Drawings--James Pollock Team IV U.
WW2 People's War - Falling Back to Dunkirk, 7th MAC British Expeditionary Force (Part 3)
The Propaganda War
Propaganda was not unique to the Korean War, but the of propaganda use was brought to a new level in Korea. Most leaflets were dropped from aircraft as one leaflet below illustrates. They were printed on low quality paper in one or two colors. Most leaflet were directed at the enemy, but as the last one on this page illustrates, some were used to thank and encourage the UN troops for a job well done. Imagine being cold, tired, demoralized and far from home. Even without a translation, the message is clear on this leaflet. The leaflet above reads:"All (of us -meaning the Chinese) are getting wounded and hurt and we don't have proper medical facilities." Left:"Everyone is in trouble because of this disaster. Ray Jones a former MP at Panmunjom in 1969-70 graciously offered to translate these propaganda leaflets for me. This leaflet reads: "The UN troops treat them good." This leaflet reads:(1) I happened to hear a couple of soldiers talking. This is a Safe Conduct Pass. | PFC GEORGE E.
War artist
A war artist depicts some aspect of war through art. The art might be a pictorial record, or it might commemorate how war shapes lives. War artists explore the visual and sensory dimensions of war, often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.[2] Definition and context[edit] A war artist creates a visual account of the impact of war by showing how men and women are waiting, preparing, fighting, suffering, celebrating,[3] or destroyed, as in Vasily Vereshchagin's 1871 painting, The Apotheosis of War. The works produced by war artists illustrate and record many aspects of war and the individual's experience of war, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political, social or cultural. Artists record military activities in ways that cameras and the written word cannot. Official war artists have been appointed by governments for information or propaganda purposes and to record events on the battlefield,[7] but there are many other types of war artists.
Adrian Hamilton: 'A great escape? Dunkirk was actually a humiliation for British forces' - This Britain - UK
A couple of months after being sent to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force, 2nd Lt Denis Hamilton was part of the beaten and outmanoeuvred army that retreated chaotically to the French coast to clamber aboard the little ships that took them to the bigger ships to take them back from whence they had come. "I came back with more men than I went out with," he later told me. "We kept picking up stragglers; some had been deserted by their officers." If Dunkirk has gone down as a heroic defeat, it wasn't like that to those who took part. My father, in the Durham Light Infantry, never elaborated about officers deserting their men. His way out of Dunkirk was on a minesweeper to Margate, blown up by German aircraft on its return to the beaches. It was the cheering, not the battle, for which Dunkirk was remembered. That didn't make it any easier for the troops on the ground, bombed and shelled day after day as they queued for the boats back. It is the same with the Dunkirk spirit.
Trench Art: An Illustrated History, by Jane Kimball
Dunkirk anniversary: The brave British soldiers who were TRUE heroes
By Hugh Sebag Montefiore Updated: 08:36 GMT, 27 May 2010 Their bodies lie piled outside the French farm where the Nazis shot them as prisoners. Now, 70 years on, we reveal the unflinching valour of the British soldiers who stayed behind to let their comrades escape at Dunkirk. Bloody corpses lay spreadeagled on the sand, and all around them there was devastation. Beside the burned-out ships that had made it to the shore, the beach was littered with decaying horses, charred lorries and scattered items of clothing. This was the apocalyptic scene that greeted German soldiers when they finally made it to the Dunkirk beaches on June 4, 1940 - 70 years ago. Atrocity: The aftermath of the Le Paradis massacre, which saw 97 British prisoners massacred after surrendering to SS troops on May 27, 1040 There was not a living British soldier to be seen. But this most British of achievements is only part of the story. The burned-out lorry was full of charred corpses I heard screams as wounded men were wounded
US Army <I>Official </I>War Artists
Prisoners and WoundedUnknown Medium Harvey Dunn It was in July 1917 that the idea of official war artists to be sent to France was proposed by the Committee on Public Information, which had been recently organized to coordinate propaganda for the war effort. The U.S. Army Signal Corps took up the idea but at first its plans came to nothing. In December 1917 Captain Aymar Embury II, of the Engineer Reserve Corps, himself an artist, asked Major-General William M. At this point, the Signal Corps, reconsidering the matter, independently approached Pershing and also asked for the commissioning of four artists to work under Signal Corps direction. Much of the material presented here comes from the book, Art from the Trenches by Alfred Emile Cornebise, published by Texas A & M University Press in 1991. The group was allowed considerable latitude in carrying out their assignments, both with the Services of Supply in the rear areas and with the troops at the front. Neufmaisonink drawingE.C. J.
