Corporal Edwin S. Fulgo - Battle of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, South Pacific, 1944 14" x 23.5"

Corporal Edwin S. Fulgo (1920-1944)Battle of Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, South Pacific, 1944, 1944 Oil on canvas on boardBoard: 14” x 23.5”Frame: 14.75” x 23.5” Signed and Dated Lower Right: Cpl. E.S. Fulgo / Feb. 18 1944 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 after at the Battle of Saipan. Provenance:ArtistArtists Family - New York, NYPrivate Collection, Utah