“Island To Island” Patriotic [Cover]
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Gladys Adler hand painted cover of an American eagle with the words ”Island To Island / Fleet With Fleet / In Tokyo We Meet”. Postmarked on March 7, 1944 in England, Arkansas.Context
During the war years, Texans, as did all Americans, gathered around their radios, eagerly read the daily news, watched newsreels at local movie houses and studied maps of foreign countries to learn the latest about the war overseas. Nothing, it seemed, was more important. This cover, decorated by Gladys Adler, promotes the Allies' island hopping military strategy in the Pacific during World War II. It involved selectively attacking and capturing strategic islands to advance towards Japan, while bypassing heavily fortified Japanese strongholds. This approach aimed to minimize casualties, cut off Japanese supply lines, and establish airfields closer to the Japanese mainland. Adler, is one of five Texas envelope artists who stand among the best-known of the 20th Century.Category
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