1963 Print Howard Brodie WWII Art Medic Oliver Poythress Soldier Dud 88 Mortar Tobacciana - Tobacco Ads celebrating the engagement of Martha

celebrating the engagement of Martha Gaffney's engagement to military aviator Henry Niles Nelson Jr

South Dakota showing the stairs used in the carving the faces of four presidents (George Washington

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at Hotel Astor in New York City on May 25th

1963 Print Howard Brodie WWII Art Medic Oliver Poythress Soldier Dud 88 Mortar Tobacciana - Tobacco Ads celebrating the engagement of MarthaThis is an original 1963 halftone print of an 88 dud landing behind a medic named Oliver Poythress in Germany (Deutschland). Brodie wrote on the subject, "During the 88 barrage, a dud landed in front of a platoon sergeant, spraying him with dirt. Another ricocheted over the 300 operator and one landed behind a medic. GIs described the duds when we rehashed the attack afterwards." Poythress had stopped a GI from throwing a grenade into a supposed enemy