Anonymous ID: 5b624a Jan. 7, 2023, 11:12 p.m. No.18102486   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>2550 >>2617

>>18102381

>>18102450

>Bataan Death March

All I know of that, I learned from Ben Steel.

 

https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2011/war-torn-art-ben-steele

https://www.artmontana.com/article/steele/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bataan-ben-steeles-drawings/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-steele-bataan-death-march-survivor-artist-dies-age-98/

Anonymous ID: 5b624a Jan. 8, 2023, 12:04 a.m. No.18102617   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>2664

>>18102486

>>Bataan Death March

>All I know of that, I learned from Ben Steel.

>>18102550

>Shippee was a good story teller.

 

The Ben Steele Story

 

Ben Steele spent the first months of World War II fighting on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. When American forces on Bataan were surrendered, Steele was one of tens of thousands of American and Filipino troops forced to go on the Bataan Death March. He spent the next three and a half years as a POW. He survived the infamous โ€œdeath shipsโ€ and ultimately ended the war working in a Japanese coal mine about 80 miles from Hiroshima.

 

After the war, Steele became a critically acclaimed artist of the American West, but the Bataan Death March and the labor camps were never far from his mind. As he came to terms with his POW experience, he began to draw from memory. Many of these sketches are now preserved at the MacArthur Memorial.

 

Video of Ben Steel's story from The MacArthur Memorial ~6 minutes

https://youtu.be/bDx7KD7tt9k