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1919 Doughboy
Poster. "The Homeward-Bound Smile." Caption reads: "Joseph C. Chase,
the well known American artist, has recently returned from
France
where he was sent by the War Department to make portraits of the
American generals. After completing this task he painted fifty
doughboy heroes who had won the Distinguished Service Cross." Some
of these original portraits by J.C. Chase hang in the armed forces
history collection of the Division of Military and Diplomacy,
National Museum of American History, Kenneth E.
Behring Center at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue N.W.,
Washington,
D.C. |