15 soldiers in the 27th Infantry Division, 105th Infantry, were sketched by one of their own, Stan Dube, during WW2, and his son just discovered some of the drawings in a box in the attic and would like to get the sketches to the families

above video shows all 15 sketches, if you recognize any of the soldiers in them, email Ira.Dube@yahoo.com

Stan Dube, who died in 2009, was drafted into the Army while studying architecture at Syracuse University, and he put his drawing skills to use by sketching pencil- and charcoal-on-paper portraits of his fellow soldiers stationed in Hawaii in 1943.

The 27th Division, 105th Infantry Regiment, a former New York National Guard unit, which most or all of the other men also were New Yorkers and were badly torn up in the Battle of Saipan

Three of the soldiers signed their names next to Dube's: Kenneth Reid, Joseph Joner Kratky (who were both New Yorkers) and Joe Orbe, who added his nickname, "Solid Jackson."

Using information he found online, Ira Dube was able to track down Kratky and Orbe's relatives in upstate New York. Kratky was killed on Saipan in 1944. Orbe, a New York City native, survived the war and died in 1974.

The unidentified drawings were delivered to the military museum over a month ago and the sketches will be posted on the museum's website it's said.

They would like to reunite the sketches with the family of these soldiers, so... if the museum (like most it's under funded, and run by overworked volunteers) ever gets the images posted, so we can do a good deed and see if we recognize anyone... https://dmna.ny.gov/historic/eventsExhibits.htm is the website. They aren't even mentioned on it yet.

Yes that irritates me, I post a dozen things a day, the damn least that museum can do is make a post about something they got a month ago.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/faces-of-war-who-are-the-men-in-soldiers-wwii-sketches/
http://pix11.com/2017/02/15/son-on-mission-to-identify-world-war-ii-soldiers-drawn-by-his-father/
http://www.fox21news.com/news/photos-do-you-recognize-these-american-heroes/837441059

If this story seems familiar, it's because in Aug 2016 I did a post that was similar http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/08/artist-elizabeth-black-delayed.html  where some sketches need to be identified and reunited with the families of the guys that were drawn during WW2