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Artist, Lt. Col. James O. Burnley (1914-2009) served in the 1142nd Army Engineers... This is very cool. Love the sketches. Great find!!!

Good evening,

 

I hope everyone is doing well.

 

I received this link below today and thought you all would find these very interesting. Enjoy! The sketches were done by Lt. Col. James O. Burnley. Sketches on the site include the following individuals:

 

Major Thomas G. Barnes

2nd Lt Arthur Chapman

Captain James A. Fry

Major Leslie Gruber

Captain Edward V. Harrison

Colonel Frank Pethick, Jr.

 

Sincerely,

Darrell Pace

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Darrel

 

By a long route, I’ve found sketches of six officers from Col Pethick’s unit.

 

Maj. Leslie Gruber was my uncle and I just posted this information to my genealogy blog. http://ghertnergenealogyblog.garyghertner.com/2012/11/major-leslie-g-gruber-sketch-by-james-o-burnley/#more-7189

 

Gary Ghertner

Forest Park, Illinois

Good sketches. I did some of the guys I was with in 2009, but I tend to go more for the caricatures. This is one of one of the CWO5s with us in the MEF G-6. He normally did have something to say and it was normally about the limited mental capacity of the originator of the idea at hand. He did it, however, in a way that normally was funny as hell!

I love it! Gee, and who knew you had this hidden talent too. Gee, maybe I can use you for the illustrator for my children's book. Of course, I'd expect color!!!!

Some Classroom doodles:

They're not always cats, but the few that I had scanned already were. The two are Hector (loud, skinny and dumb) and Lucy (fat).