1963 Print Howard Brodie WWII Art Medic Oliver Poythress Soldier Dud 88 Mortar Tobacciana - Tobacco Ads Keywords specific to this image:

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Astounding Science Fiction

Please note that there is a heavy amount of rubbing and scuffing on this cover

The antenna sticks above the scrub pines like the feeler of a big bug

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 Keywords specific to this image:This 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