(WORLD WAR TWO) Edwin S Fulgo A marines painting done soon a

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(WORLD WAR TWO.) Edwin S. Fulgo. A marine's painting done soon after the Battle of Kwajalein in the South Pacific. Oil on canvas, 14 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches to sight, signed and captioned in lower margin; wrapped around and affixed to period board with adhesive and nails, minor soiling. Not examined out of period frame. Kwajalein Atoll, 18 February 1944

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This view was painted by Edwin S. Fulgo (1920-1944) of Rensselaer, NY, a corporal in the Fourth Tank Battalion in the Fourth Marine Division. It was painted 15 days after the American victory over the Japanese in the Battle of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. It apparently shows a tank crew's sleeping quarters on the occupied atoll: a tent pitched off the rear of a tank, fortified by logs and sandbags. Corporal Fulgo was killed in action four months later at the Battle of Saipan.