Leavitt Sketch - Platoon Headquarters

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Title	Leavitt Sketch - Platoon Headquarters
Description	Cartoon of two soldiers in a trench with artillery fire overhead. It was drawn by Sergeant David Leavitt who served with a machine gun battalion in the 35th Division. According to the speech bubbles, the men are saying “They Think this is Battalion Headquarters.” The cartoon illustrates fighting by the 35th Division on September 27, 1918, the second day of the Battle of the Meuse-Argonne. Full details are in From Vauquois Hill to Exermont: A History of the Thirty-Fifth Division of the United States Army by Clair Kenamore. After the war, Leavitt was known for his murals in St. Louis and Chicago. During World War II he developed a dye used to locate downed pilots in the ocean and he designed aircraft markings still in use today.
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