tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18907156.post5043445314837157383..comments2024-03-19T00:40:08.529-04:00Comments on Today's Inspiration: William A Smith: "...a terrible picture of the atrociousness of war."leifpenghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07232334860061949895noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18907156.post-73897954355073964362008-11-16T14:45:00.000-05:002008-11-16T14:45:00.000-05:00Excellent post-I've studied Ronald Searle's POW sk...Excellent post-I've studied Ronald Searle's POW sketches in depth but it's great to see other artists interpretations of life in confinement during the war.Matt Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06691360081537045523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18907156.post-20919093410990598892008-11-16T10:55:00.000-05:002008-11-16T10:55:00.000-05:00Kim;That's a great story - I can only imaging the ...Kim;<BR/><BR/>That's a great story - I can only imaging the ensuing pandemonium, had it been a Hollywood movie. Hopefully the real-life conclusion was , um, unremarkable.<BR/><BR/>Mark - thanks for the encouragement! - the credit must really go to Kim for making this week's series possible.<BR/><BR/>And yes, it <I>does</I> remind me of that movie - excellent point! :-)leifpenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232334860061949895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18907156.post-67252285973911968172008-11-16T07:33:00.000-05:002008-11-16T07:33:00.000-05:00Great job this week, Leif.Reminds me of the movie ...Great job this week, Leif.<BR/>Reminds me of the movie 'Empire of the Sun'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18907156.post-44158535110870347572008-11-15T16:09:00.000-05:002008-11-15T16:09:00.000-05:00Wonderful, Leif. Thank you so much.Some of the ph...Wonderful, Leif. Thank you so much.<BR/><BR/>Some of the photos I have unearthed from the archives are of drawings Dad did prior to leaving for China. One of his first jobs for the OSS was to illustrate Japanese uniforms and articles of clothing to aid soldiers in recognizing the enemy. Somewhere in the archives the family has a copy of this catalogue. <BR/><BR/>A humorous story about the making of this document was that several Nisei were hired to pose in Dad's hotel room in Washington DC, dressed in uniform etc., for Dad to draw. The housekeeping staff, not informed of this project, walked in on the sitting. I believe there was a "gun" element to the sittings, because they are depicted in some of the resulting drawings. You can imagine the surprise of housekeeping staff walking in on a Japanese (American) in uniform pointing a gun in the general vicinity of my Dad, also possibly in uniform, in a DC hotel room during wartime!Kim Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07593633705200153974noreply@blogger.com