Description | Watercolour drawing of a field gun [possibly an M115 howitzer, used by American forces during WWII] painted field green, in a field. It is signed in ink, lower right and the caption is written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting, lower left. According to a letter from Vivian Wyatt dated 20 May 2004, it depicts a US 155mm M1/M2 "Long Tom" gun [which first saw combat in 1943]. |