Monday, April 02, 2007

Inferno

Inferno by William F. Draper

This painting depicts the village of Charou Kanan, Saipan, the sugar mill became an inferno on D-Day. As the flames leap to the sky, Marines stealthily creep forward. Enemy mortar fire falls over the beachhead causing many casualties to the men and supplies.

Oil on canvas, October 29, 1944