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Smithsonian Air and Space, #2

Thursday, May 29, 2008

So the area with the WW2 artifacts occupies two rooms the A&S museum in DC, and truth be told, it feels a little  cramped. For a more wide-open experience, check The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (in lovely Dulles near the airport). In this photo, you can see how things are pretty much on top of […]

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Looted art and WWII

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Now this is writing.  The Smithsonian magazine offers yet another feature length piece on the history of World War II.  And it’s about art, no less, and one the better pieces I’ve read in some time.  The article is called Monumental Mission and it is authored by Robert Poole. After having waded through Shirer’s Rise and Fall, […]

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WW II Museums

Friday, January 4, 2008

Peter Chen over at ww2db.com recently visited the West Point Museum and Visitors Center in New York state.  A report of his visit is here.   In recent years, I’ve had the good fortune to visit the National Museum of the Marine Corp and the World War II Memorial in DC.  Both of these reports are hosted at the ww2db […]

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Submarine Service

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Down in Baltimore for a conference this week. As I was walking around the inner harbor after dinner at the DE-LISH Cheesecake factory (try the fish and chips), I thought to myself: “is that a sub over there?” Indeed, it is the USS Torsk, and on AUG 14, 1945, “she completed her wartime career by […]

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More from the NPG

Monday, July 9, 2007

More from the 20th Century Americans exibit at the National Portrait Gallery: * Winston Churchill–What struck me about this painting was the striking blue of the uniform, though it’s hard to see that in this picture. * George Marshall–This one occupied a separate wall…very true to life rendering. Not at all like the MacAuthor painting. […]

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Douglas MacAuthur

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Now this one over at the NPG caught my eye among all the ww2 portraits. All the portraits there, and most others I’ve seen, are generally as true to life as the artist can make them. It’s almost as if a different kind of visual interpretation breaks the rule of painting “serious war fellows.” This […]

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George Patton

Saturday, July 7, 2007

Over at the National Portrait Gallery today and wandered in to the 20th Century Americans exhibit. This area, more or less, was the WWII section with portraits of Marshall, Halsey, Mark Clark, Churchill, Ike (though his was only 8×11—hopefully he has something better over in the American Presidents wing, though I didn’t have the chance […]

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Paintings…

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Several months ago, I visited the newly christened NMoftheMC. I wrote about it here, and Peter Chen generously posted it, including 18 photos, web site, the World War 2 Database. Thinking about all our modern technologies now, it’s easy to forget that in the 1940s, the armed services employed hundreds of artists to document operations […]

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