That scene was on my 2019 Peanuts Daily Desk Calendar and I had not seen it before. I actually got rather choked up when I first saw the scene. Snoopy frantically trying to get past the obstacles and to the shore with his comrades.
Charles Schulz (1922-2000) was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. He served as a staff sergeant with the 20th Armored Division in Europe during World War II, as a squad leader on a .50 caliber machine gun team. His unit saw combat only at the very end of the war.
Snoopy, intrepid WWI...
John
Hope you find it of interest. What I found was that these two musicals captured many aspects of Post WWII America and provided another way of looking at the period. My doctoral program at SU was interdisciplinary so I was able to consider a wide range of subjects including in addition to...
I was born in 1945 and I believe there are a number of Treefrog Forum Members who were part of the Boomer Generation who might find my dissertation of interest. Those who remember the many Cowboy and Soldier TV shows of the 1950s and early sixties and performers such as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry...
I became a fan of the Muppets in the 1970s when I was teaching Art History at the University of Hartford (Connecticut). One of the studio instructors there invited 2 of the main makers of the Muppets to come and do a workshop one Saturday. One of the makers was Kermit Love for whom the frog was...
77th Regt. (3 sets Command, Standing, Kneeling). Super painting as always by Allan Farley:salute::
The 77th fought during the 1850s in the Crimean War against Russian forces. They participated in the battles of Alma, Inkerman and Sevastopol. In the 1840s they were sent to Halifax N.S.
I...
FYI for 54th collectors
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
by Douglas R Egerton | Oct 31, 2016
On sale at Amazon for $21.74 normally $35.OO
An intimate, authoritative history of the first black soldiers to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Soon...
Here are two more examples of the appearance of North American Mountain Men during the first half of the 19th C. Source book at bottom. A great resource on Clothing in the Wild West.
Randy
The pilot and truck are both K&C items in my collection. The other items were already in the backdrop photo.
I used photoshop to get the watercolor effect.
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