Sketched on a C-47 transport from New Caledonia to Espiritu Santo, Dec. 42

Sketch shows soldiers and officers in a C-47 transport airplane flying in the South Pacific from the French territory of New Caledonia to the Vanuatu island of Esp ritu Santo, the site of a large United States air base during World War II. Howard Brodie covered the World War II Battle of Guadalcanal for Yank magazine.
Gift, Sgt. Howard J. Brodie, 1944; (DLC/PP-1944:114).