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Down in the Dungeon - art by Don Greer (1977)

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1944 09 Warsaw StuG III - Don Greer - Squadron Signal

The vehicle most closely resembles those of Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 302 or the attached batteries of SS-Polizei-Panzer-Kompanie that were rushed into the city under the command of SS-Gruppenführer Heinz Reinefarth and Oskar Dirlewanger. Many surviving photos from Wola and the Old Town show almost identical StuG III Ausf.Gs in exactly this camouflage and configuration, picking their way through the same kind of brick-strewn canyons .Don Greer himself confirmed in later interviews that he based this painting directly on wartime photographs taken in Warsaw in September 1944.

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1942 04 Samoa, Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver VMO-151 - Don Greer

VMO-151 would soon be deployed to Samoa in the South Pacific on April 7, 1942, along with VMF-111, a Grumman F4F Wildcat squadron, amid fears that the Japanese would strike and potentially occupy several islands including Midway, Johnston Island, Palmyra, Samoa and Fiji. Men, material and particularly aircraft were sent from all services to each of these areas as quickly as possible.The Marines found themselves on Tutuila, the largest island in the Samoan archipelago, where conditions were primitive at best. Mosquitos, humidity, and oppressive heat were their constant companions. They flew daily anti-submarine patrols, and an alert crew of six pilots and six gunners were on standby from dawn to dusk. Maintenance of the SBC-4’s was a problem, so much so that some of the patrols were flown in one of a handful of Grumman JRF-5 Ducks that had also been sent to Samoa.In the event of Japanese attack, VMO-151’s operational plan consisted of striking the enemy force as far out as possible, entailing a one-way mission in which they expected to run out of fuel over the ocean en route back to Tutuila. Once they ditched, the plan called for the commanding general’s PBY to land on the water to pick them up, then take off again mid-ocean. One of the Marine aviators on Samoa, Colonel John B. Berteling, recalled, “It certainly was not the sort of plan that inspired confidence in our survival.” VMO-151 would remain on Samoa until early 1943, when they were finally re-equipped with Douglas SBD’s.Samoa would be the final front-line service of the SBC-4. The U.S. Marine Corps would not phase it out of service completely until a full year after the Navy had retired the type. Like many other combat aircraft at the beginning of America’s war, it was pressed into service and stood in harm’s way until more modern aircraft were widely available.

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