1942 01 28


“Army Induction Center” (Among Us Mortals, 01/28/1942)
by W.E. (William Ely) Hill (1887-1962)
24 x 19 in., ink on board

In this January 28, 1942 edition, titled “Army Induction Center”

“Accepted, and wondering what’s ahead. Talking direly about K. P., twenty-mile hikes and scrubbing out latrines. (The uncle of one soldier told him he had to do that all during the last war, so he knows.) The cheerful guy on the right has all the dope on injections for this and that, and how one of their arms will be stiff for weeks to come.”