MY LATEST WW2 PAINTING ARRIVED!

[Rory Schultz]

My painting that I won from the Heritage Auction by Mort Kunstler arrived a bit ago. Once I get the room all remodeled it will have on one side the WW2 themed art along with the WW2 artifacts. I tried to get this other painting that had a clown in a suit with Hitler mustache doing the heil and some geese were doing the goose step in front of the clown but it went for a ton more than I was going to pay!


It is a WW2 piece called " Epic 100 day survival of Sgt. McHorten"

 

[jack31916]

Nice piece of art! I guess we're looking at a scene on Guadalcanal...? Couldn't find a Sgt. McHorten on the internet or is it just a fictional name?

 

[Pilot]

Congrats Rory !: Bataan march 1942?

 

[Rory Schultz]

My father's oldest brother was in the Bataan Death March and survived being a POW in Japan. When we moved to Texas in 1968 I met him and he would take me metal detecting. He died around 1974.

 

[Pilot]

My father's oldest brother was in the Bataan Death March and survived being a POW in Japan. When we moved to Texas in 1968 I met him and he would take me metal detecting. He died around 1974.

Respect and Honor RIP.

 

[Rory Schultz]

Nice piece of art! I guess we're looking at a scene on Guadalcanal...? Couldn't find a Sgt. McHorten on the internet or is it just a fictional name?

Don't know, I have not had the chance yet to do the research on it since it came yesterday. Damn Fed Ex were supposed to deliver it today, but they left it at my door and did not even ring the doorbell or notify me. It sat there all day until I discovered it at 10pm. It could have been stolen. I keep telling people not to use Fed Ex when they send me stuff.

 

[jack31916]

Don't know, I have not had the chance yet to do the research on it since it came yesterday. Damn Fed Ex were supposed to deliver it today, but they left it at my door and did not even ring the doorbell or notify me. It sat there all day until I discovered it at 10pm. It could have been stolen. I keep telling people not to use Fed Ex when they send me stuff.

That sucks... Maybe one of the neighbours took care of it before it got stolen...? Let's hope for the best.

 

[Rory Schultz]

Respect and Honor RIP.

It is unbelievable how large my dad's side of the family is. My Grand father born in 1863 outlived 3 wives and the(I think it was the 4th) 4th wife is the one that gave birth to my father. All of my father's half brothers and sisters born from the 1st and second wife had a ton of kids but were already dead by the time my dad was born. Then he had some 9 or 10 half sisters and about 8 half brothers from the 3rd wife and those were like 30 or so years older than he was... the final wife, my grandmother (she was Native American Indian) No one knows her real name so no one can track her ancestry. But that wife my dad had some 6 sisters and 8 brothers then you had the half siblings still alive also. That is why I mentioned a long time ago about the monstrous size of my family. You see all of those siblings had also had huge numbers of children. When I was doing the ancestry trail it became a nightmare trying to trace all the branches. When I first started there was an index that had a list of names of people I am related to and the numbers were around 24 or 25 thousand. I could not believe it until I saw how many wives and children came from my grandfather. That old fart was a serious breeder!!! He died just short of 100 years of age and I was just a squirt when I met him on his death bed. It is the same on my mother's side of her family. I met my Uncle, my mother's brother only once back when I was a kid but during WW2 he was on a ship and survived the sinking by Erich Topp. There is a lot more to the story......anyway here is my mothers brother Uncle Howard Frizzell by the way William Frizzell (country singer) was my mother's cousin. I have a ton of photos stashed in storage of a bunch of my relatives in groups with their Uniforms on. They were all combat veterans. When I lived in G.P. Texas one Uncle lived next door with 4 cousins, 3 more cousins (Those were much older than me) lived down the street. 2 Uncles and 6 more cousins lived on the next block over. Trying to track all these relatives almost drove me nuts! So I had to quit.

This is my Uncle Howard (mother's brother) during WW2. I would appreciate if someone could identify the emblem on his shoulders. I have been trying to track his military service but can not find info about which branch etc.

This is my father U.S.M.C. WW2, Korea, Vietnam.

 

[Rory Schultz]

My painting that I won from the Heritage Auction by Mort Kunstler arrived a bit ago. Once I get the room all remodeled it will have on one side the WW2 themed art along with the WW2 artifacts. I tried to get this other painting that had a clown in a suit with Hitler mustache doing the heil and some geese were doing the goose step in front of the clown but it went for a ton more than I was going to pay!


It is a WW2 piece called " Epic 100 day survival of Sgt. McHorten"


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One of the things I find amusing in this painting is the injured soldier firing the Thompson with one hand/ without bracing.....that is very difficult to fire it like that. It would recoil all over the place. LOL

 

[jack31916]

The unitcrests on the epaulets of your uncle's uniform are from the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One). Check it out

 

[Rory Schultz]

Good grief! Thanks, from the angle I was looking from i thought it was a 4. Damn, It would be the same unit as that fake hero was in.

 

[Kennyz]

Hi Rory. You can get text shipment updates from fedex for any future shipments, here's the link:

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Ken

Don't know, I have not had the chance yet to do the research on it since it came yesterday. Damn Fed Ex were supposed to deliver it today, but they left it at my door and did not even ring the doorbell or notify me. It sat there all day until I discovered it at 10pm. It could have been stolen. I keep telling people not to use Fed Ex when they send me stuff.

 

[jack31916]

Good grief! Thanks, from the angle I was looking from i thought it was a 4. Damn, It would be the same unit as that fake hero was in.

My pleasure. It's an arrow and a different era than the fake hero. Picture is late war since he's wearing double discs on the lapels and most likely the French fourragère de guerre lanyard. There's no discharge badge visible so he's still on active service. Hope you will find more info on your uncle.

 

[Rory Schultz]

I would like to know about him since we do not know whatever happened to him. My mother does not know what happened to him either.