Selasa, 22 Mei 2018

Uncommon Chivalry

David Hammond’s painting Uncommon Chivalry  highlights a rare compassionate act in the midst  of combat more than six decades ago. In it he depicts Republic P-47D pilot Major Bill Dunham circling over a Japanese flier he had just shot down over the Philippine Sea in December 1944. Dunham is shown tossing his own lifejacket to …

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